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Neonatal sepsis
A serious blood bacterial infection in an infant less than 4 weeks of age. Babies with sepsis may be listless, overly sleepy, floppy, weak, and very pale.
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- Chronic leukemia Cancer of the blood cells (leukemia) that progresses slowly
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- DOTS Stands for Directly Observed Treatment, Short-course. DOTS is a strategy used to reduce the number of…
- Aorta, descending The descending aorta is the part of the aorta, the largest artery in the body, that runs down through the…
- Cerebral ventricle >Lateral ventricles: The lateral ventricles are in the cerebral hemispheres. Each lateral ventricle consists…
- Qualm 1. Sickness, disease, pestilence, or death. As in 'A thousand slain and not of qualm ystorve [not dead of…
- Perfect pitch The inherent human ability to identify a note or sing it without hearing a reference note beforehand. Since…
- HSA 1. In the US, Health Saving Account.2. Human serum albumin
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