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Fever, dandy
An acute mosquito- borne viral illness of sudden onset that usually follows a benign course with headache, fever, prostration, severe joint and muscle pain, swollen glands (lymphadenopathy) and rash. The presence (the 'dengue triad') of…
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Show more- Affect The emotional tone a person expresses. A person's affect may be appropriate or inappropriate to the…
- Reaction, desmoplastic This term refers to the growth of fibrous or connective tissue. Some tumors elicit a desmoplastic reaction…
- Fracture, spiral A fracture, sometimes called a torsion fracture, in which a bone has been twisted apart. NTER> A fracture is…
- Floater A blurry spot that seems to drift in front of the eyes but does not block vision. The blur is the result of…
- Fear of mirrors An abnormal and persistent fear of mirrors. Sufferers experience undue anxiety even though they realize their…
- Interleukin-3 A protein that stimulates the immune system to develop mast cells and bone-marrow cells. Abbreviated IL-3
- Parasitosis Infestation or infection with parasites. See also: Delusional parasitosis
- Pulmonary insufficiency 1. Incomplete closure of the pulmonary valve in the heart, allowing blood to return from the pulmonary artery…
- Scale, skin A thin piece of the outermost layer of skin resembling a fish scale. They represent a heaping up of the…
- Carbohydrates Mainly sugars and starches, together constituting one of the three principal types of nutrients used as…
- Incontinence, urinary Incontinence, urinary: The unintentional loss of urine. Inability to hold urine in the bladder due to loss of…
- Laparotomy An operation to open the abdomen. The word 'laparotomy' was first used to designate this operation in 1878 by…