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- Sexual jealousy See: Othello syndrome
- Xanthopsia A form of chromatopsia, a visual defect in which objects appear as if they have been overpainted with an…
- Central fovea See: Fovea.
- Midnight children Term applied sometimes to children with xeroderma pigmentosum, a genetic disease with such extraordinary…
- Scan, SPECT Single Photon Emission Computed Tomography, a nuclear medicine procedure in which a gamma camera rotates…
- Dilatate To enlarge or expand. For example, to dilatate the eye is to enlarge the pupil temporarily with special…
- Overactive bladder Overactive bladder: A sudden involuntary contraction of the muscular wall of the bladder causing urinary…
- Premacular fibrosis See: Macular pucker
- Bannayan syndrome A genetic disease characterized by macrocephaly (enlarged head), multiple lipomas (benign fatty tumors) and…