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Vincent gingivitis
This is trench mouth, a progressive painful infection with ulceration, swelling and sloughing off of dead tissue from the mouth and throat due to the spread of infection from the gums. Certain germs (including fusiform bacteria and…
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Show more- Secondary pulmonary arterial hypertension See: Pulmonary hypertension
- HHV-6 Human herpesvirus 6
- Parainfectious Occurring at the time of and in association with an acute infection or an episode of infection. For example…
- Squamous-cell carcinoma See: Squamous cell carcinoma
- Fear of going to bed An abnormal and persistent fear of going to bed. Sufferers of this fear experience anxiety even though they…
- Yard In length, 3 feet or 36 inches or, metrically, 91.44 centimeters. The yard, along with the foot and inch, are…
- Iatr- Prefix relating to a physician or medicine. An iatrogenic illness is one inadvertently caused by a physician…
- Electrolarynx A battery-operated instrument that makes a humming sound to help people who have lost their larynx to talk
- Bilirubin A yellow-orange compound produced by the breakdown of hemoglobin from red blood cells.
- Hydroxyapatite Hydroxyapatite: A major component and an essential ingredient of normal bone and teeth. Hydroxyapatite makes…
- Cardiac myxoma A benign tumor of the heart and the most common type of heart tumor in adults. Cardiac myxomas can appear in…
- AAP The American Academy of Pediatrics