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Syndrome, Creutzfeldt-Jakob
Better known as Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD). A dementing disease of the brain. It is believed due to an unconventional (not a bacteria or virus), transmissible agent called a prion. Symptoms of CJD include forgetfulness, nervousness…
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- Air bag A bag that fills with air, designed for frontal impact crashes, the kind of crashes which account for more…
- Hypnic 1. Inducing sleep. 2. Pertaining to sleep. A hypnic jerk is a sleep start or jerk. From the Greek hypnikos…
- Bradyphrenia Slowed thought processes. Can be a side effect of certain psychiatric medications
- Ossicle Any small bone, such as the tiny bones within the human ear
- Mean cell hemoglobin Hemoglobin: The average amount of hemoglobin in the average red cell. The mean cell hemoglobin (MCH) is a…
- Congenital stationary night blindness An inherited eye disorder that is not progressive ('stationary') and principally affects the rod…
- SEER The Surveillance, Epidemiology, and Ends Results (SEER) program that maintains statistics on cancer in the…
- Longevity Lifespan. (With increasing longevity, women will soon be postmenopausal for one third of their lives)
- Tissue, lymphoid A part of the body's immune system that helps protect it from bacteria and other foreign entities. Lymphoid…
- Dermabrasion Dermabrasion: Dermabrasion is a surgical procedure that involves the controlled abrasion (wearing away) of…
- Biopsy, sentinel-lymph-node See: Sentinel lymph node biopsy