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Chronic bacterial prostatitis
Prostatitis: Longstanding bacterial infection of the prostate gland superimposed on a defect in the prostate. (The prostate is a small organ below the bladder which surrounds the urethra, the tube that carries urine down from the bladder.)…
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Show more- Dermopathy Any disease of the skin. Synonymous with dermatopathy.
- Brainstem auditory evoked potentials See: ABR test
- Bioelectric impedance analysis A seemingly simple method for determining the lean body mass. Abbreviated BIA. There are two methods of the…
- Chromosome disorder An abnormal condition due to an abnormality of the chromosomes. For example, Down syndrome (the genetic…
- Brainstem The lowest part of the brain which merges with the spinal cord and provides the major route by which the…
- Spina bifida occulta A bony defect in the vertebral column that causes a cleft in that column. The cleft remains covered by skin…
- Hallervorden-Spatz disease A genetic disorder in which there is progressive neurologic degeneration with the accumulation of iron in the…
- Anesthesiology The branch of medicine specializing in the use of drugs or other agents that cause insensibility to pain…
- Small intestine insufficiency See: Short bowel syndrome
- PNS (peripheral nervous system) That portion of the nervous system that is outside the brain and spinal cord. The peripheral nervous system…
- Felty's syndrome Felty's syndrome: A complication of long-standing rheumatoid arthritis. See: Felty syndrome.
- Phenotype, Klippel-Feil See: Klippel-Feil sequence