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Tinea unguium
>People with diabetes; >People with disease of the small blood vessels (peripheral vascular disease); and >Older women (perhaps because estrogen deficiency increases the risk of infection); and >Women of any age who wear artificial nails…
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Show more- Poison ivy Poison ivy: Skin inflammation resulting from contact with oils from the poison ivy vine. Chemicals produced…
- Tympanic membrane Just the ear drum
- Troche A small medicated lozenge designed to dissolve. For example, to soothe the throat as a cough drop. Strictly…
- Appendix A small outpouching from the beginning of the large intestine (the ascending colon). Formally called the…
- PJS Polycystic kidney disease.
- Vulvar Pertaining to the vulva, the female external genitalia including the labia majora, labia minora, clitoris…
- Pachyderma Thick skin, like that of a pachyderm (an elephant, rhinoceros, or hippopotamus). From the Greek pachydermos…
- Medicine, geriatric The branch of medicine concerned with the diagnosis, treatment and prevention of disease in older people and…
- Prior approval See: Prior authorization
- Disorder, seasonal affective (SAD) Depression that tends to occur (and recur) as the days grow shorter in the fall and winter. It is believed…
- Osteoblast A cell that makes bone. It does so by producing a matrix that then becomes mineralized. Bone mass is…
- FGD1 The faciodigitogenital dysplasia gene. FGD1 normally plays an essential role in embryonic development…