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Show more- Syndrome, Raeder's A distinctive syndrome of headaches, also known as cluster headache or migrainous neuralgia. The common…
- Labia, oral The lips around the mouth. See lip.
- Event A set of outcomes. Cardiovascular events might include a heart attack and gastrointestinal events a GI bleed…
- WNL Within normal limits. A laboratory test result may for instance be WNL.
- Psoralen photochemotherapy See: PUVA
- Glioma, optic See Optic glioma
- Marburg disease The virus that causes Marburg hemorrhagic fever, a disease which affects both humans and non-human primates…
- Nasogastric tube A tube that is passed through the nose and down through the nasopharynx and esophagus into the stomach…
- Eyelids, adult ptosis of the Drooping of the upper eyelids in adults, most commonly due to separation of the tendon of the lid-lifting…
- Torture An act by which severe pain or suffering, whether physical or mental, is intentionally inflicted on a person…
- Pyoderma gangrenosum An ulcerating condition of the skin leading to hollowed-out areas (ulcers) with heaped-up borders and a…
- ARB Angiotensin II receptor blocker