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Stroke
Stroke: The sudden death of some brain cells due to a lack of oxygen when the blood flow to the brain is impaired by blockage or rupture of an artery to the brain. A stroke is also called a cerebrovascular accident or, for short, a CVA…
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- Lectin A complex molecule that contains both protein and sugar. Lectins are made by both animals and plants and are…
- Coprolalia The excessive and uncontrollable use of foul or obscene language, including words related to feces (bowel…
- Avulse To separate or tear away a body part, as from an accident or surgery. While playing football, he avulsed a…
- Five-day fever Fever: Also called trench fever, this is a disease borne by body lice that was first recognized in the…
- Churg-Strauss syndrome Churg-Strauss syndrome: A disease characterized by inflammation of small arteries and veins in persons with a…
- Solitary tapeworm Taenia solium
- Lesbian Female homosexual. The name 'lesbian' comes from the Greek island of Lesbos in the Aegian Sea where in…
- Brill-Zinsser disease Recrudescence of epidemic typhus years after the initial attack. The agent that causes epidemic typhus…
- Tetany >Hyperreflexia (overactive neurological reflexes), >Carpopedal spasm (spasms of the hands and feet), >Cramps…
- Adhesion The union of two opposing tissue surfaces (often in reference to the sides of a wound). Also refers to scar…
- Flavoproteins Flavoproteins are yellow proteins that serve as enzymes critical to the ability of cells in the body to…