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Flaviviridae
A family of viruses transmitted by mosquitos and ticks that cause some important diseases, including dengue, yellow fever, tick-borne encephalitis virus, and West Nile fever. The flaviviruses are positive-strand RNA viruses containing…
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Show more- Sleep restriction therapy A type of therapy in which the number of hours of sleep are restricted. Sleep restriction therapy is used in…
- Parietal pericardium The outer layer of the pericardium which is a conical sac of fibrous tissue that surrounds the heart and the…
- Exercise-induced asthma Asthma: Asthma that is 'triggered' by vigorous physical activity. Exercise-induced asthma tends particularly…
- Muscular dystrophy, Emery-Dreifuss Abbreviated EDMD. A form of muscular dystrophy that begins in childhood or adolescence as a slowly…
- Rounds The act of seeing patients in the hospital or another in-patient setting. After doing his hospital rounds…
- Corns Corns: Small calloused areas of skin caused by local pressure irritating tissue over a bony prominence. Corns…
- Cloning vector A DNA molecule originating from a virus, a plasmid (see below) or the cell of a higher organism into which…
- Houseboat carbon monoxide poisoning The invisible and potentially lethal danger of carbon monoxide on houseboats. Carbon monoxide poisoning is a…
- Alternate hemiplegia See: Alternating hemiplegia of childhood
- Chronic This important term in medicine comes from the Greek chronos, time and means lasting a long time. A chronic…
- Gestational hypertension See: Hypertension, gestational
- Euphenics Literally meaning 'normal appearing,' euphenics aims to improve the outcome of a genetic disease by altering…