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Aflatoxin
A toxin produced by mold that can damage the liver and may lead to liver cancer. Aflatoxins cause cancer in some animals. The fungi that produce aflatoxin grow on crops such as peanuts (especially) and wheat, corn, beans and rice…
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Show more- Insomnia, chronic Insomnia that occurs most nights and lasts a month or more. The treatment of chronic insomnia consists of: >…
- FFI Fatal familial insomnia
- Knee-jerk Adjective meaning readily predictable to the point of being automatic. Knee-jerk often has a negative…
- Freudian Pertaining to the neurologist, psychiatrist and founder of psychoanalysis Sigmund Freud (1856-1939) or to the…
- Pacifier An artificial nipple, usually made of plastic, upon which an infant can suck to gain some solace and quiet…
- MRDM Malnutrition-related diabetes mellitus. See: Tropical diabetes
- Marshall W. Nirenberg A disorder characterized by advanced bone age at birth, broad forehead, prominent eyes, and small chin. There…
- Qi gong ('chee-GUNG') A component of traditional Chinese medicine that combines movement, meditation, and regulation…
- Dandy fever An acute mosquito- borne viral illness of sudden onset that usually follows a benign course with headache…
- Hippophobia An abnormal and persistent fear of horses. Sufferers of this fear experience undue anxiety even when a horse…
- Genital herpes A viral infection transmitted through intimate contact with the moist mucous linings of the genitals. This…
- Knee, secretary's The patellofemoral syndrome (PFS), the commonest cause of chronic knee pain. PFS characteristically causes…