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Acute stress disorder
The anxiety and behavioral disturbances that develop within a month of exposure to extreme trauma. The symptoms of an acute stress disorder usually begin during or shortly following the trauma. Such extreme traumatic events include rape or…
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Show more- DCIS See Pendred syndrome.
- Multiple abortions Two or more miscarriages (spontaneous abortions) by a woman. Couples who have had multiple abortions have…
- Disease, Paget See: Paget disease
- HHT Abbreviation for the disease called hereditary hemorrhagic telangiectasia. See: Hereditary hemorrhagic…
- Sexual sadism Individuals with sexual sadism disorder have persistent fantasies in which sexual excitement results from…
- Meibomian gland One of the little glands in the eyelids that make a lubricant called sebum which they discharge through their…
- Clinical disease A disease with clinical signs and symptoms that are recognizable. As distinct from a subclinical illness…
- Social anxiety disorder Excessive fear of embarrassment in social situations that is extremely intrusive and can have debilitating…
- TB Common abbreviation (spelled out T-B) for tuberculosis. Tuberculosis took its name from the characteristic…
- Teaspoon An old-fashioned but convenient household measure. A teaspoon holds about 5 cc of liquid
- Test, exercise treadmill A test (sometimes simply called a treadmill test or exercise test) in which a continuous electrocardiogram…
- Amyloid Any of a number of complex proteins that are deposited in tissues and that share selected laboratory features…