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The most complete online medical dictionary: 16,436 terms covering anatomy, physiology, pathologies, diagnostic exams, pharmacology and every clinical specialty.
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MEDLINE® is the best known database of the U.S. National Library of Medicine (NLM). MEDLINE enables anyone to query the NLM computer's store of journal article references on specific topics. It currently contains 9 million references going…
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Show more- Tropical diabetes Diabetes mellitus associated with chronic malnutrition and, sometimes, chronic pancreatitis. Whether tropical…
- Fetishism Fetishism is a problem in which a person has sexual urges associated with non-living objects. The person…
- Outpatient A patient who is not an inpatient (not hospitalized) but instead is cared for elsewhere -- as in a doctor's…
- Large-cell lymphoma A novel type of bacterium first isolated in Hong Kong in 2001 from the blood and empyema (pus in the chest)…
- Galactorrhea The spontaneous flow of milk from the nipple at any time other than during nursing. Galactorrhea can be due…
- ALA 1. Alpha-linolenic acid 2.Aminolevulinic acid, a naturally occurring chemical in the body that is converted…
- Coccidioidomycosis (CM) A disease due to a fungus called Coccidioides immitis. About 40% of people infected with this fungus develop…
- Bone, ankle The ankle bone is termed the talus. It is the bone of the foot that joins the tibia and fibula to form the…
- Stickler 1. Stickler, Gunnar B.. 2. Stickler syndrome. 3. With a small s, someone who insists upon some matter such as…
- Gland, tarsal See: Meibomian gland
- Globus A word straight from the Latin, meaning (not unexpectedly) a globe or sphere. The word 'globus' is used in a…
- Tendinitis Inflammation of a tendon (the tissue by which muscle attaches to bone). Tendinitis most commonly occurs as a…