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Baskerville effect
A fatal heart attack triggered by extreme psychological stress. The effect is named after Charles Baskerville, a character in the Arthur Conan Doyle story 'The Hound of the Baskervilles,' who suffers a fatal heart attack due to extreme…
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- Migraine, common See: Common migraine
- SPD calcinosis Striopallidodentate (SPD) calcinosis, a condition first described in 1930 by T. Fahr and therefore called…
- Pathogenic Causing disease or capable of doing it. Pathogenic bacteria are disease-causing bacteria. For example…
- Chin Medically, the mentum. The lower portion of the face below the lower lip including the prominence of the…
- Scrofula An old term for tuberculosis of the lymph nodes in the neck. Also known as the King's evil
- Sedimentation rate Sedimentation rate: A blood test that detects and monitors inflammation in the body. It measures the rate at…
- Hydronephrosis Hydronephrosis: Distention of the kidney with urine. Due to obstruction of urine outflow (for example, by a…
- Cutaneous syndactyly A condition in which fingers or toes are joined together, and the joining involves only the skin, not the…
- Yolk stalk A narrow tube present in the early embryo that connects the midgut of the embryo to the yolk sac outside the…
- Variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease Variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease: Abbreviated vCJD. A human disease thought due to the same infectious agent…
- Knee joint The knee joint has three parts. The thigh bone (the femur) meets the large shin bone (the tibia) to form the…