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Hand, foot, and mouth disease
A common illness of infants and children under 10 years old characterized by fever, sores in the mouth, and a rash with blisters due to infection most commonly with coxsackievirus A16 or less often enterovirus 71 or another enterovirus…
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Show more- Inotropic Affecting the force of muscle contraction. An inotropic heart drug is one that affects the force with which…
- Traction, orthopedic The use of a system of weights and pulleys to gradually change the position of a bone. It may be used in…
- Enteric Pertaining to the small intestine. Also called (less often) enteral
- Biofilm An aggregate of microbes with a distinct architecture. A biofilm is like a tiny city in which microbial…
- Arthroscopy Arthroscopy: A surgical technique whereby a tube-like instrument is inserted into a joint to inspect…
- Acquired immunity Immunity acquired by infection or vaccination (active immunity) or by the transfer of antibody or lymphocytes…
- Anophthalmia Absence of the eye, as a result of a congenital malformation (birth defect) of the globe. Anophthalmia…
- Pleurodynia Also known as Bornholm disease, this is a temporary illness that is a result of virus infection. The disease…
- Acellular Not made up of cells or divided into cells. Or lacking intact cells as, for example, an acellular vaccine…
- Coronary angiography The most accurate method (the 'gold standard') for evaluating and defining coronary artery disease (CAD)…
- Scler- (Or sclero-) A confusing prefix that can refer exclusively to hardness (from the Greek 'skleros' meaning…
- Rigour See: Rigor