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Achillodynia
Pain due to inflammation of the Achilles tendon or the bursa associated with it. The Achilles tendon is one of the better known anatomic features in sports medicine due to the abrupt dramatic nature of some injuries to this tendon. It is…
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- Aspie Name that many people with Asperger syndrome call themselves
- Tenth cranial nerve The tenth cranial nerve, and one of the most important, is the vagus nerve. All twelve of the cranial nerves…
- PC Although PC is usually taken to mean personal computer, in the biomedical arena PC also stands for protein C…
- Norwegian scabies See crusted scabies
- Angle-closure glaucoma, acute Increased pressure in the front chamber (anterior chamber) of the eye due to sudden (acute) blockage of the…
- Typist's cramp A dystonia that affects the muscles of the hand and sometimes the forearm and only occurs during handwriting…
- Akinetic Without movement (or without much movement). A term used in neurology to denote the absence (or poverty) of…
- FALDH deficiency Also known as the Sjogren-Larsson syndrome, this is a genetic (inherited) disease usually characterized by a…
- CNR2 Cannabinoid receptor 2
- Thyroiditis, subacute Subacute Thyroiditis is an inflammation of the thyroid gland after a viral illness. NTER>
- Body stuffing The swallowing of relatively small amounts of loosely wrapped illicit drugs because of the fear of arrest