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Insufficiency, coronary
See: Coronary insufficiency
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- Traumatic brain injury Brain damage from trauma. The three leading causes of death from traumatic brain injury relate to firearms…
- Nicotinic acid Deficiency of nicotinic acid (also known as niacin), one of the B-complex vitamins, causes pellagra. Pellagra…
- E. coli O157:H7 A dangerous form of Escherichia coli, the colon bacillus, a bacterium that normally lives in the human colon…
- Ciliary body melanoma See: Intraocular melanoma
- Encephalopathic syndrome A dangerous condition with symptoms similar to those of neuroleptic malignant syndrome (NMS), of which it may…
- Lithium Lithium: Lithium carbonate (brand names: Eskalith; Lithobid), a drug used as a mood stabilizer for the…
- Clade Related organisms descended from a common ancestor. For example, isolate M of HIV-1 (the human…
- Paralysis, facial nerve Loss of voluntary movement of the muscles on one side of the face due to abnormal function of the facial…
- Quasidominant Pattern of inheritance that seems due to a dominant trait but is in fact due to the mating of a person who…
- Ear, internal There are three sections of the ear. They are the external ear, the middle ear, and the internal ear. The…