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Thai hemorrhagic fever
A syndrome due to the dengue virus that tends to affect children under 10, causing abdominal pain, hemorrhage (bleeding) and circulatory collapse (shock). Known also as dengue hemorrhagic fever (DHF), it starts abruptly with high…
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- Multicellular Consisting of more than one cell. Humans are multicellular and have been estimated to possess 100,000 billion…
- Paraphilia Paraphilia: One of several complex psychiatric disorders that are manifested as deviant sexual behavior. For…
- Albino A person with albinism. The term was first applied by the Portuguese to people in West Africa who may have…
- Neuralgia, vidian A distinctive syndrome of headaches, better known today as cluster headache. There are two main clinical…
- Dialectical behavioral therapy A mode of treatment designed for people with borderline personality disorder (BPD), particularly those with…
- Varicocele A common scrotal condition characterized by elongation and enlargement of the network of veins leaving the…
- Lymphoma, intermediate-grade See: Low-grade lymphoma.
- Prostaglandin E2 One of the prostaglandins, a group of hormone-like substances that participate in a wide range of body…
- Condyloma latum A manifestation of the secondary stage of syphilis that takes the form of broad flat wartlike growths in…
- Category 3 storm See: Category three hurricane
- Saccadic movement See: Saccade