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Neutropenia
Neutropenia: Not enough neutrophils, neutrophils being a type of white blood cell (specifically a form of granulocyte) filled with neutrally-staining granules, tiny sacs of enzymes that help the cell to kill and digest microorganisms it…
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- Pathogenic Causing disease or capable of doing it. Pathogenic bacteria are disease-causing bacteria. For example…
- Polypectomy Removal of a polyp by surgery. In the case of polyps in the colon, polypectomy may be done by open abdominal…
- Peripheral pulmonary stenosis with cholestasis Also known as arteriohepatic dysplasia or Alagille syndrome, this ia a genetic disorder characterized by…
- Congenital deafness Deafness: Loss of hearing present at birth. Congenital deafness contrasts to acquired deafness which occurs…
- Nervous system, central (CNS) That part of the nervous system that consists of the brain and spinal cord. The central nervous system (CNS)…
- Quasidominant Pattern of inheritance that seems due to a dominant trait but is in fact due to the mating of a person who…
- Reinstein syndrome A heritable syndrome characterized by eye disease (specifically, macular degeneration and inverse retinitis…
- Adoption medicine Medicine for the adopted child, including pre-adoption counseling and evaluation based on a child's medical…
- Achillodynia Pain due to inflammation of the Achilles tendon or the bursa associated with it. The Achilles tendon is one…
- Skeleton The skeleton is composed of bones and is the framework of the body
- Arteriosclerotic aneurysm A localized widening (aneurysm) of a vessel that occurs because the vessel wall is weakened by…