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Aerophobia
An abnormal and persistent fear of flying. Sufferers experience severe anxiety even though they usually realize that the flying does not pose a threat commensurate with their fear. Aerophobia also means an irrational fear of fresh air or…
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Show more- Anhidrotic Pertain to anhidrosis, too little sweating. Hidrosis meaning sweating, so an-, too little + hidrosis = too…
- Delta-storage pool disease See: Hermansky-Pudlak syndrome
- Extrauterine Outside the uterus (the womb). As opposed to intrauterine: inside the uterus. For example, normal pregnancies…
- Insecticidal Capable of killing insects or controlling their growth
- Hypotonia Decreased tone of skeletal muscles. In a word, floppiness. Hypotonia is a common finding in cerebral palsy…
- Perichondrial To do with the perichondrium, a dense membrane composed of fibrous connective tissue that closely wraps all…
- Syndrome, yeast The yeast Candida has been thought to cause a syndrome with a number of nonspecific problems including…
- Fistulize To form or make a fistula, an abnormal passageway. As, for example, fistulizing Crohn's disease
- Under the weather Colloquial expression for sick or ill as, for example, to be under the weather with the flu. The phrase…
- Ventriculopleural shunt A shunt that drains fluid from a cerebral ventricle into the pleural (chest) cavity. The shunt is designed to…
- Height growth See: Normal growth
- Fear of flying An irrational fear of flying is called aerophobia. Aerophobia also refers to irrational fear of fresh air or…