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One cause of dizziness is overbreathing (hyperventilation) due to anxiety. The overbreathing also causes lightheadedness, a sense of unsteadiness and tingling around the mouth and fingertips. Relief can be gotten by breathing in and out of…
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- Biologic evolution Biologic evolution was contrasted with cultural (social) evolution in 1968 by A.G. Motulsky who pointed out…
- Tunica albuginea of the testis The layer of dense whitish inelastic tissue that surrounds the testis
- Nondisjunction Failure of paired chromosomes to disjoin (separate) during cell division so that both chromosomes go to one…
- Neonatology The art and science of caring medically for the newborn.
- Spasticity A state of increased tone of a muscle (and an increase in the deep tendon reflexes). For example, with…
- Phonosurgery Surgical procedures that maintain, restore, or enhance the human voice. Phonosurgery includes…
- Prenatal diagnosis Diagnosis before birth. Methods for prenatal diagnosis include ultrasound of the uterus, placenta, and/or…
- Xanthinuria An inherited metabolic disorder in which there is deficiency of an enzyme needed to process xanthine, a…
- RWI Recreational water illness
- Disease, Fahr This syndrome described in 1930 by T. Fahr is a genetic (inherited) neurological disorder characterized by…
- Indicate In medicine, to make a treatment or procedure advisable because of a particular condition or circumstance…