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Ice cream headache
A headache that occurs when one puts ice, a cold food or chilled beverage in the mouth. Ice cream is by far the most frequent offender. The headache occurs regardless of whether or not the individual suffers from other types of headache…
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- Intertrigo A superficial skin disorder involving any area of the body where opposing skin surfaces may touch and rub…
- Dysphasia One in a group of speech disorders in which there is impairment of the power of expression by speech…
- Organic 1. A chemical compound that contains carbon.2. Related to an organ.3. Grown or prepared without the use of…
- Stomach, Pavlov A pouch fashioned surgically from part of the stomach (but isolated from the rest of the stomach) that opens…
- Genome, Vibrio cholerae The genome of the bacterium that causes cholera. This genome contains over 4 million bases in its DNA…
- Falciparum malaria Malaria: The most dangerous type of malaria. Red blood cells infected with the parasite tend to sludge and…
- Vaginal contraceptive sponge A contraceptive device that is donut-shaped, made of plastic, contains a spermicide (nonoxynol-9) and is…
- Herpes zoster Also called shingles, zona, and zoster. The culprit is the varicella-zoster virus. Primary infection with…
- Night blindness Impaired vision in dim light and in the dark, due to impaired function of specific vision cells (namely, the…
- Disease, polycystic ovarian Scrub typhus, a mite-borne infectious disease caused by a microorganism, Rickettsia tsutsugamushi…
- Forgotten disease Name sometimes given to Lemierre syndrome