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Encopresis
Encopresis: Inability to control the elimination of stool (fecal incontinence). Encopresis can have a variety of causes, including inability to control the anal sphincter muscle or gastrointestinal problems, particularly chronic diarrhea…
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Show more- Levocardia Reversal of all of the abdominal and thoracic organs (situs inversus) except the heart, which is still in its…
- Amnesic aphasia See Anomia.
- Infectivity The proportion of persons exposed to an infectious agent who become infected by it
- Connexon A special type of protein composed of an assembly of six subunits that are called connexins. A connexon of…
- Spinal cord disease in diabetes Involvement of the spinal cord in people with diabetes. Most of the neurologic attention in diabetes mellitus…
- Cadaver wart A warty growth on the hand due to tuberculosis, typically of someone doing postmortem examinations. A cadaver…
- Blood culture A test designed to detect if microorganisms such as bacteria and fungi are present in blood. A sample of…
- Insomnia, intermittent Insomnia that occurs from time to time and each time lasts less than a week or two. Intermittent insomnia may…
- Hemidiaphragm, elevated See: Elevated hemidiaphragm
- Caesarian section Also referred to as a C-section. A procedure in which a baby, rather than being born vaginally, is surgically…
- Myalgia, epidemic Also known as Bornholm disease, this is a temporary illness that is a result of virus infection. The disease…
- Human gene therapy Insertion of normal DNA directly into cells to correct a genetic defect. The treatment of disease by…