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Kleine-Levin syndrome
A rare condition characterized by excessive need for sleep, food, and sexual disinhibition. Most people with Kleine-Levin syndrome are adolescent males. When awake, they may be confused, irritable, and lethargic, and some have…
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Show more- HER2 Abbreviation for human epidermal growth factor receptor 2. HER2 is expressed by, and involved in the growth…
- Pseudoobstruction, neuropathic Intestinal pseudoobstruction caused by damage to nerve cells in the walls of the bowel
- Cervical vertebra, second The second cervical vertebra is called the axis. It is so-named because the uppermost cervical vertebra…
- Transvestism Dressing in the clothing of the opposite sex. Transvestism is distinct from both transsexualism and…
- Colitis, mucus A common gastrointestinal disorder involving an abnormal condition of gut contractions (motility)…
- Diploid The number of chromosomes in most cells of the body. This number is 46 in humans. It is naturally twice the…
- Emotional eating Emotional eating: Emotional eating is the practice of consuming large quantities of food -- usually 'comfort'…
- Diabetic retinopathy A common complication of diabetes affecting the blood vessels in the retina (the thin light-sensitive…
- Disease, Binswanger A form of dementia with blood vessel abnormalities in the deep white-matter of the brain causing loss of…
- Chromosome 4p- syndrome The 4p- syndrome or Wolf-Hirschhorn syndrome, is a chromosome disorder due to partial deletion of the short…
- Granulomatosis, Wegener's An inflammatory disease of small arteries and veins (vasculitis) that classically involves vessels supplying…
- Hex-A deficiency See: Tay-Sachs disease