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Blepharitis
Inflammation of the eyelids. Blepharitis occurs in two forms, anterior and posterior: > >Anterior blepharitis affects the outside front of the eyelid, where the eyelashes are attached. The two most common causes of anterior blepharitis are…
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- Carcinoma in situ, squamous cell An early stage of skin cancer. Also known as Bowen's disease. This is a tumor that develops from the squamous…
- Sternum Anatomic name for the breast bone, the long flat bone in the upper middle of the front of the chest. The…
- Toxin, botulinum See: Botulinum toxin
- FAE (fetal alcohol effects) A softer diagnosis than fetal alcohol syndrome (FAS). The diagnosis of possible FAE is considered when: 1…
- Mongolism Obsolete name for Down syndrome. Down syndrome refers to the 19th century English physician J. Langdon Down…
- Gregarious parasite A parasite whose nutritional requirements permit several to many of them to live simultaneously in or on the…
- Shopaholic Someone obsessed with shopping. A compulsive shopper. From shop + -aholic, alteration of -oholic (as in…
- Tension, intravenous The pressure of the blood within a vein, the venous pressure
- Diastrophic dysplasia An inherited skeletal disorder involving significantly short stature (dwarfism). Characteristic features at…
- Arteritis, Takayasu Also called giant cell arteritis or cranial arteritis, this is a serious disease characterized by…
- Locomotion Movement from one place to another. And the ability to locomote, to get from one place to the next. The…