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The most complete online medical dictionary: 16,436 terms covering anatomy, physiology, pathologies, diagnostic exams, pharmacology and every clinical specialty.
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- Polydipsia Excessive thirst all the time. Polydipsia occurs, for example, in untreated or poorly controlled diabetes…
- Eye, lazy See: Lazy eye
- Tunica albuginea of the testis The layer of dense whitish inelastic tissue that surrounds the testis
- Autosomal dominant hereditary spastic paraplegia A degenerative disorder of nerves with progressive spasticity of the legs. Abbreviated as AD-HSP. Spasticity…
- Wesand See: Weasand
- Buschke's scleredema E: Scleredema
- Device, assistive Any device that is designed, made, and/or adapted to assist a person to perform a particular task. For…
- Myocardial infarction A heart attack. Abbreviated MI. The term 'myocardial infarction' focuses on the myocardium (the heart muscle)…
- Adenoiditis Infection of the adenoids.
- Air travel with diabetes A concern for patients with diabetes is flying with medications and supplies. Letters from doctors are not…
- Open reading frame A long sequence of DNA that has no stop codon (no signal to stop reading) and therefore may encode part or…