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Hormone, parathormone
Hormone made by the parathyroid gland (behind the thyroid gland in the neck). Parathormone (pronounced para-thor-mone) is critical to calcium and phosphorus balance. Deficiency of parathormone results in abnormally low calcium in the blood…
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Show more- Infection, Vincent This is trench mouth, a progressive painful infection with ulceration, swelling and sloughing off of dead…
- Keratoma An area of hardened skin, usually called a callus
- Delta-storage pool disease See: Hermansky-Pudlak syndrome
- Labiodental sound A sound that requires the involvement of the teeth and lips, such as 'v,' which involves the upper teeth and…
- Syndrome, Timothy See: Timothy syndrome
- Genome, Haemophilus influenzae See: H. flu genome
- Heart disease, rheumatic Heart damage caused by rheumatic fever. Treatment is by preventing reinfection with strep and by treating…
- Venereal Having to do with sexual contact. The word venereal comes from Venus, the Roman goddess of love. A venereal…
- CCD (cleidocranial dysostosis) >Absent or incompletely formed collar bones (the 'cleido-' part refers to the clavicles, the collar bones)…
- Auscultate To listen to the sounds made by the internal organs of the body for diagnostic purposes. For example, nurses…
- Zinc deficiency dermatitis and diarrhea Diarrhea: Among the consequences of zinc deficiency, dermatitis (skin inflammation) and diarrhea are…
- Monkeypox Monkeypox: A rare zoonotic (animal-borne) viral disease similar to smallpox. The virus responsible for…