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Rift Valley fever
A viral disease that is acute, causes fever in domestic animals (such as cattle, buffalo, sheep, goats, and camels) and humans, and is associated with mosquito-borne epidemics during years of heavy rainfall. Rift Valley fever is more…
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- Hyposmia A reduced ability to smell and to detect odors. Some people have anosmia and can detect no odors
- Prothrombin time A clotting test, the prothrombin time is done to test the integrity of part of the clotting scheme. The…
- Progressive cardiomyopathic lentiginosis See: LEOPARD syndrome
- Transaminase clinical usage Two of the better known enzymes in the transaminase class are serum glutamic oxaloacetic transaminase (SGOT)…
- Electrosurgery Instead of using a scalpel, the surgeon utilizes a heat-generating electrical device to burn or vaporize…
- TSI Stands for Thyroid Stimulating Immunoglobulin. The TSI level is abnormally high in persons with…
- Chemo Slang for chemotherapy -- drug therapy for cancer. Most anticancer drugs are given IV (into a vein) or IM…
- Pox virus See: Orthopox
- Labia The lips, either the lips around the mouth (the oral labia) or the lip-like external female genitalia (the…
- Human herpesvirus 7 Closely related to HHV-6, human herpesvirus 7 has also been linked to roseola. Researchers believe it may…
- Idiopathic scoliosis A "wastepaper basket" for those cases of immune thrombocytopenic purpura whose cause is still unknown. See…