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Angina, Vincent
Angina, Vincent: This is trench mouth, a progressive painful infection with ulceration, swelling and sloughing off of dead tissue from the mouth and throat due to the spread of infection from the gums. Certain germs (including fusiform…
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- Orchiectomy The surgical removal of one or both testes.
- Abortion, induced An abortion that is brought about intentionally. Also called an artificial or therapeutic abortion. As…
- Tarsus Any broad flat surface. The flat of the eyelid is called the tarsus, as is the base of the heel. The bones in…
- Irrigation of the colon The use of liquid solutions given by enema to remove material from the rectum or colon, ostensibly to…
- Adult primary liver cancer A tumor in which the cancer starts during adulthood in cells in the liver. Also called hepatocellular…
- Single nucleotide polymorphism A change in which a single base in the DNA differs from the usual base at that position. Abbreviated SNP and…
- Rhabdomyosarcoma A malignant tumor that starts in muscle. Rhabdomyosarcoma is primarily a childhood tumor and occurs most…
- Post-traumatic stress Stress: An anxiety disorder that develops in some individuals who have had major traumatic experiences. The…
- KSS Kearns-Sayre syndrome
- Physiologic jaundice of the newborn Although there can be a diversity of physiologic stress tests, this refers here to a physiologic cardiac…
- Hyperbilirubinemia, neonatal Elevation of the bilirubin level in the blood of the newborn, which results in yellowish staining of the skin…