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ADH secretion, inappropriate
The syndrome of inappropriate secretion of antidiuretic hormone (ADH) results in the inability to put out dilute urine, perturbs fluid (and electrolyte) balance, and causes nausea, vomiting, muscle cramps, confusion and convulsions. This…
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Show more- Food-insecure Referring to the situation when people need to live with hunger and fear starvation
- Enteritis, Crohn Crohn disease involving only the small intestine. Crohn disease is a chronic inflammatory disorder, primarily…
- Aerotitis Middle ear problems due to changing atmospheric pressures, as when a plane descends to land. The problems…
- Laryngeal Having to do with the larynx (the voice box). NTER>
- Palate The roof of the mouth. The front portion is bony (hard palate), and the back portion is muscular (soft palate)
- Gy Abbreviation for gray
- X inactivation The phenomenon in a female by which one X chromosome (either the maternally or paternally derived X) is…
- Disease, Jakob's Better known as Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD), a dementing disease of the brain. It is believed due to an…
- Hip pointer Sportstalk for an iliac crest contusion (a bruise of the upper edge of the ilium, one of the hip bones).
- CABG Coronary artery bypass graft; and Coronary artery bypass grafting
- Y sex-determining region A region on the Y chromosome that determines the sex of the individual. This region goes by the symbol SRY…
- Infantile beriberi Disease in infants due to deficiency of thiamine. This disease is well-known in undeveloped countries among…