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Fever, hemorrhagic
A number of diseases characterized by an abrupt onset of high fever and chills, headache, cold and cough, and pain in the muscles, joints and abdomen with nausea and vomiting followed by bleeding into the kidney and elsewhere. Known also…
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- Intravenous feeding Intravenous feeding: Feeding through a vein. Also called parenteral alimentation or parenteral nutrition
- Saccharin An artificial sweetener which diluted in water is 300-500 times sweeter than the sugar sucrose. (Saccharin is…
- Vernix caseosa A white cheesy substance that covers and protects the skin of the fetus and is still all over the skin of a…
- John H. Gibbon, Jr. See: Gibbon, John H., Jr.
- Pediatric urinary tract infection See: Urinary tract infection in children
- Umami The taste of substances such as glutamate and monosodium glutamate (MSG) that are found in foods like…
- Cyclothymia A form of bipolar disorder in which the mood swings are less severe. See also bipolar disease.
- Blastocystis hominis The parasitic organism that causes blastocystosis. See Blastocystosis
- Hormone, erythropoietin Erythropoietin is a substance produced by the kidney that leads to the formation of red blood cells in the…
- Tube, Eustachian The tube that runs from the middle ear to the pharynx. The function of the Eustachian tube is to protect…
- Variant angina Angina: Chest pain due to coronary artery spasm, a sudden constriction of a coronary artery (one of the…