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Vaccination, measles
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- Amnestic aphasia See Anomia
- Endogenous Inside. For example, endogenous cholesterol is cholesterol that is made inside the body and is not in the…
- Pellagra >Diarrhea; >Dermatitis: A scaly rash on skin exposed to light or trauma; >Dementia: Mental disorientation…
- Discharge, nipple See: Breast discharge
- Generic drug >The chemical name of a drug. >A term referring to the chemical makeup of a drug rather than to the…
- Reflex, photic sneeze A disorder, also known as the achoo syndrome, characterized by nearly uncontrollable paroxysms of sneezing…
- C peptide See: C-peptide
- Syndrome, autoimmune polyglandular (APS) A genetic autoimmune disease with an extraordinary array of clinical features but characterized most often by…
- Nephrosis Non-inflammatory, non-neoplastic disease of the kidney. Nephrosis an be caused by kidney disease, or it may…
- Nerve, accessory See: Accessory nerve
- Oxygen tent A tent-like device used to deliver high levels of oxygen to a patient in a bed. The tent typically covers the…