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Irritant contact dermatitis
Dermatitis: A rash brought about by constant irritation from a substance. For example, anyone who washes their hands many times a day can develop 'dish pan hands.' Another example is in young children who lick their lips repeatedly…
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- Presentation, footling There are single-footling or double-footling presentations depending upon whether the presenting part of the…
- Discordant 1. Showing discordance, lack of agreement. A couple may be discordant for a sexually transmitted infection…
- Eidetic 1. Marked by extraordinarily accurate and vivid recall, especially of images. 2. By extension, an individual…
- Mansfield, Peter British scientist (1933-) who shared the 2003 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine with the American…
- Barotrauma, sinus See: Sinus barotrauma
- Patient-controlled analgesia See: PCA
- Cyclin D A family of three closely related proteins termed cyclin D1, D2 and D3 that are expressed in an overlapping…
- Laceration A cut. All that is required to care for most cuts is to wash them with soap and water and keep them clean and…
- Mycobacteria Plural of mycobacterium
- Journal, medical, first American The first U.S. medical journal, the Medical Repository was founded in 1797 and published quarterly until…
- Fever with renal syndrome, hemorrhagic A set of diseases, also known as hemorrhagic fever, characterized by the abrupt onset of high fever and…