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ICU psychosis
ICU psychosis: A disorder in which patients in an intensive care unit (ICU) or a similar hospital setting may experience anxiety, become paranoid, hear voices, see things that are not there, become severely disoriented in time and place…
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- Disease, Bornholm Bornholm disease is a temporary illness that is a result of virus infection. The disease features fever and…
- Variant angina Angina: Chest pain due to coronary artery spasm, a sudden constriction of a coronary artery (one of the…
- Retinoic acid syndrome A syndrome that occurs from treatment with retinoic acid and is characterized by fever, dyspnea (difficulty…
- Normal growth rate The speed with which normal growth occurs in length before birth and in height after birth. Fetal growth is…
- Hepatitis Inflammation of the liver caused by the hepatitis A virus (HAV). HAV is usually transmitted from person to…
- Hemorrhagic diarrhea, E. coli Bloody colitis (inflammation of the bowel) caused by E. coli, usually by the strain E. coli 0157:H7. The…
- Orgasmic dysfunction See: Anorgasmia
- Islet cell tumor See: Islet cell cancer
- Carcinoma, islet cell See: Islet cell cancer
- Enteric-coated Coated with a material that permits transit through the stomach to the small intestine before the medication…
- Carbonmonoxyhemoglobin See: Carboxyhemoglobin