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Show more- Race An ethnic stock or division of humans. Naturalists and ethnographers have long divided humans into a variable…
- Quadriparesis Weakness of all four limbs, both arms and both legs, as for example from muscular dystrophy.
- Medical school syndrome A form of acute hypochondriasis that affects most people in training to be a physician. For example, when…
- Seroconversion Seroconversion: The development of detectable antibodies in the blood directed against an infectious agent…
- World Health Organization An agency of the United Nations established in 1948 to further international cooperation in improving health…
- Os sacrum The large, heavy bone at the base of the spine, which is made up of fused sacral vertebrae. The sacrum is…
- PX Medical abbreviation for prognosis
- Ipecac A naturally occurring substance with multiple properties including the ability to cause vomiting (emesis)…
- Idiopathic sclerosing cholangitis See: Primary sclerosing cholangitis
- Arteriogram An x-ray of blood vessels, which becomes visible after an injection of contrast solution into the circulation…
- Fever, yellow See: Yellow fever
- Assembly and budding A portion of the processes by which new HIV is formed in infected host cells. Viral core proteins, enzymes…