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Broken hip
Fractured bone in the hip, a key health problem among the elderly, usually due to a fall or other kind of trauma involving direct impact to the hip bone which has been weakened by osteoporosis. The part of the hip most often broken is the…
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- Spinal cord disease in diabetes Involvement of the spinal cord in people with diabetes. Most of the neurologic attention in diabetes mellitus…
- Cancer, stomach Cancer of the stomach, the main organ that holds food for digestion. Worldwide, stomach cancer is the second…
- Disease, Brill-Zinsser Recrudescence of epidemic typhus years after the initial attack. The agent that causes epidemic typhus…
- Lipoid nephrosis The earliest stage of nephrosis (the nephrotic syndrome of childhood). See: Minimal change disease. See also…
- Hepar The liver or a preparation made from it. The term hepar is not often used today. It is a direct borrowing of…
- Syndrome, respiratory distress (RDS) Formerly known as hyaline membrane disease, a syndrome of respiratory difficulty in newborn infants caused by…
- Cervical dysplasia Changes from normal in the cells lining the cervix of the uterus. Cervical dysplasia involves a sequence of…
- Myoma A benign tumor of smooth muscle in the wall of the uterus. A myoma of the uterus is commonly called a…
- Male pelvis The lower part of the abdomen located between the hip bones in the male. There are significant differences in…
- Fear of new things An irrational fear of anything new, of innovation, of new situations, places, or things. Also called…