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Yeast infection
Yeast infection: Overgrowth of yeast can affect the skin (yeast rash), mouth (thrush), digestive tract, esophagus, vagina (vaginitis), and other parts of the body. Yeast infections occur most frequently in moist areas of the body. Although…
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- Dizziness Dizziness: Painless head discomfort with many possible causes including disturbances of vision, the brain…
- Surveillance of disease See: Disease surveillance
- Schizophrenia Schizophrenia: One of several brain diseases whose symptoms that may include loss of personality (flat…
- Descending pathway A nerve pathway that goes down the spinal cord and allows the brain to control movement of the body below the…
- Smoke, second-hand Environmental tobacco smoke that is inhaled involuntarily or passively by someone who is not smoking…
- DPT Diphtheria-Pertussis-Tetanus vaccine. Today the more frequent abbreviation is DTP (for…
- Syndrome, TMJ Disorder of the temporo-mandibular joint (TMJ) causing pain usually in front of the ear. Pain in the TMJ can…
- Reading frame, open See: Open reading frame
- Regulatory region A region of a chromosome that controls gene expression. In terms of DNA, it is a regulatory sequence
- Local seizure See: Partial seizure
- Arrhythmia, sinus The normal increase in heart rate that occurs during inspiration (when you breathe in). This is a natural…