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Paraphilia
Paraphilia: One of several complex psychiatric disorders that are manifested as deviant sexual behavior. For example, in men the most common forms are pedophilia (sexual behavior or attraction toward children) and exhibitionism (exposing…
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- Bone marrow transplant A procedure in which bone marrow that is diseased or damaged is replaced with healthy bone marrow. The bone…
- Pagetic Pertaining to Paget disease, a chronic disorder that typically results in enlarged, deformed bones due to…
- Power outage work safety >the hazards of working in heat >simple but effective ways of organizing work assignments and the workplace…
- Aqueous humor In medicine, humor refers to a fluid (or semifluid) substance. Thus, the aqueous humor is the fluid normally…
- NMR Nuclear Magnetic Resonance. An imaging technique that does not use radiation.
- Neuralgia, migrainous A distinctive syndrome of headaches, today better known as cluster headache. There are two main clinical…
- Intracranial hematoma A hematoma (a collection of blood) within the cranium (skull). The bleed may or may not be within the brain…
- Denervation Loss of nerve supply. There are many causes of denervation. Denervation may be due to a disease as, for…
- Systemic therapy Treatment that reaches cells throughout the body by traveling through the bloodstream
- White blood cell count Kocyte count): The number of white blood cells (WBCs) in the blood. The WBC is usually measured as part of…
- Wolframin A protein encoded by a gene known as WFS1. Mutations in WFS1 are associated with Wolfram syndrome and also…