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Laryngostasis
More commonly known as croup, this is an infection of the larynx, trachea, and the bronchial tubes, that occurs mainly in children. It is usually caused by viruses, less often by bacteria. Symptoms include a cough that sounds like a…
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- Calor Heat, one of the four classic signs of inflammation (together with dolor, rubor and tumor). From the Latin…
- Goldring, Sidney Polish-born American neurosurgeon who pioneered the surgical treatment of epilepsy. Beginning in the 1970s…
- ETM2 A gene for essential tremor, uncontrollable shaking of the hands and head and sometimes other parts of the…
- Exercise, isotonic Exercise when a contracting muscle shortens against a constant load, as when lifting a weight. Isometric…
- Skin graft Skin that is used to cover an area where the patient's skin has been lost due to a burn, injury, or surgery…
- Postpartum depression Postpartum depression: A form of severe depression after delivery that requires treatment. It is sometimes…
- Cecal Pertaining to the cecum (also spelled caecum), the first portion of the large bowel, situated in the lower…
- Hypermnesia Abnormally strong memory of the past. As compared to hypomnesia and amnesia. From hyper- + the Greek mneme…
- Alzheimer disease See: Alzheimer's disease
- Shigella Epidemic and opportunistic bacillary dysentery due to infection with the Shigella bacteria. Shigellosis…
- Apolipoprotein E A type of lipoprotein (a protein connected to a fat). Apolipoprotein E is abbreviated ApoE and the gene that…