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Sweating, gustatory
Sweating on the forehead, face, scalp, and neck occurring soon after ingesting food. Some gustatory sweating is normal after eating hot, spicy foods. Otherwise, gustatory sweating is most commonly a result of damage to a nerve that goes to…
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Show more- Long-term memory A system for permanently storing, managing, and retrieving information for later use. Items of information…
- Errors of metabolism, inborn Heritable (genetic) disorders of biochemistry. Examples of inborn errors of metabolism include albinism…
- Corpus amygdaloideum See: Amygdaloid nucleus
- IFA Indirect immunofluorescence assay
- Asthenia Weakness. Lack of energy and strength. Loss of strength. The word asthenia is not much used in medicine…
- Hetero- Chromosomal material that is darkly staining and tightly coiled throughout the cell cycle and that is, for…
- Fruit fly Scientifically known as Drosophila melanogaster. A favorite organism in genetics and biology research since…
- Ventricular tachycardia An abnormally rapid heart rhythm that originates from a ventricle, one of the lower chambers of the heart…
- Supine With the back or dorsal surface downward. A person who is supine is lying face up. As opposed to prone. For a…
- Humidifier fever Fever: A form of sick building syndrome that usually develops on Monday or the first workday of the week. The…
- Transcranial magnetic stimulation Abbreviated TMS. A non-invasive technique that consists of a magnetic field emanating from a wire coil held…
- Bile duct cancer An uncommon type of cancer that arises from the bile duct, the tube that connects the liver and the…