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Tuberculosis, antibiotic-resistant
A variant of tuberculosis (TB) that is not affected by one or more of the antibiotics normally used to treat it. If the strain of TB is unaffected by more than one medication, it is called multidrug resistant (MDR) TB. A person with any…
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Show more- Autosomal dominant A pattern of inheritance in which an affected individual has one copy of a mutant gene and one normal gene on…
- Immunity, innate See: Innate immunity
- Archaeology The scientific study of the material remains of past peoples. In archaeology today, a range of biological…
- AK 1. Above the knee. 2. Acanthamoeba keratitis. 3. Actinic keratosis
- Pyloric stenosis Narrowing (stenosis) of the outlet of the stomach so that food cannot pass easily from it into the duodenum…
- Kuru A slowly progressive fatal disease of the brain due to an infectious agent transmitted among people in Papua…
- Computed tomography colography See: Virtual colonoscopy
- Factitious disease by proxy See: Munchhausen syndrome by proxy
- STEP procedure See: Serial transverse enteroplasty
- Fear of blood An abnormal and persistent fear of blood. Sufferers of this very common phobia dread the sight of their own…
- Tenosynovitis, De Quervain's 1) The pressure within a vessel, such as blood pressure: the pressure within the blood vessels. For example…
- Shunt, Blalock-Taussig A pioneering heart operation named after the American surgeon Alfred Blalock (1899-1964) and the pediatric…