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Disease, occupational
A disease due to a factor in a person's occupation. For example, lung disease in miners. Occupational medicine was founded by the Italian physician Bernardino Ramazzini (1633-1714). His De Morbis Artificium (On Artificially Caused…
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- Breslow thickness A method for determining the prognosis with melanoma. The thickness of a melanoma is related to the 5-year…
- Zeitgeber An environmental agent or event that provides the cue for setting or resetting a biological clock. To be…
- Pestilence The pestilence referred to the bubonic plague and it now refers to any epidemic disease that is highly…
- Tympanites A hollow drum-like sound produced when a gas-containing cavity is tapped sharply. Tympanites is heard if the…
- Anemia, sickle cell A genetic blood disease due to the presence of an abnormal form of hemoglobin, namely hemoglobin S…
- Nonpathogenic Incapable of causing disease. Nonpathogenic bacteria are harmless. By contrast, pathogenic bacteria can cause…
- Infection The growth of a parasitic organism within the body. (A parasitic organism is one that lives on or in another…
- Dipeptide A peptide consisting of two amino acids
- Visual contrast sensitivity The ability to perceive differences between an object and its background
- Test, NSE Neuron-specific enolase (NSE) is a substance that has been detected in patients with certain tumors, namely…
- Echocardiography, stress Stress: A supplement to the routine exercise cardiac stress test. During stress echocardiography, the sound…