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Systemic-onset juvenile chronic arthritis
See: Arthritis, systemic-onset juvenile rheumatoid
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- Cardiovascular syncope Cardiovascular syncope: Sudden collapse into unconsciousness due to a disorder of heart rhythm in which there…
- Ganglion Ganglion: The celebrated 2nd century Greek physician Galen ((c. 130-201 A.D.) who lived and worked in Rome…
- Idiot savant See: Autistic savant. The term 'autistic savant' is preferred to the old term 'idiot savant' as less…
- Base sequence analysis A method for determining the order of nucleotide bases in DNA
- Psychiatry The medical specialty concerned with the prevention, diagnosis, and treatment of mental illness…
- Thrombocytosis See thrombocythemia
- Anaphylactoid purpura See: Schonlein-Henoch purpura
- Occupational medicine The field of medicine encompassing occupational disease, diseases due to factors in people's occupations. For…