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Infection, ear (acute middle)
Acute middle ear infection, medically called acute otitis media is inflammation of the middle ear. Acute otitis media typically causes fluid in the middle ear accompanied by signs or symptoms of ear infection: a bulging eardrum usually…
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- Multisection CT See: Multidetector computed tomography
- Rickets, celiac Rickets caused by failure of the intestines to absorb calcium and fat from foods
- Genome, cow See: Bovine genome
- Bartter syndrome A group of disorders that are inherited in an autosomal recessive manner and are characterized by impaired…
- Intravenous immunoglobulin A sterile solution of concentrated antibodies extracted from healthy people that is given straight into a…
- Precocious puberty Precocious puberty is the unusually early development of secondary sexual features. The onset of sexual…
- Disease, black lung See: Black lung disease
- Dura mater Literally, hard mother (in Latin). The outermost, toughest, and most fibrous of the three membranes…
- Scrub typhus A mite-borne infectious disease caused by a microorganism, Rickettsia tsutsugamushi, characteristically with…
- Black lung disease A chronic occupational lung disease contracted by the prolonged breathing of coal mine dust. The silica and…
- Frame, open reading See: Open reading frame