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Pressure, intraocular
The pressure created by the continual renewal of fluids within the eye. The intraocular pressure is increased in glaucoma. In acute angle-closure glaucoma, the intraocular pressure rises because the canal into which the fluid in the front…
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- Angiosarcoma A type of cancer that begins in the lining of blood vessels. This type of tumor tends to be aggressive, recur…
- Dancing mania of Maracaibo Huntington disease. Beginning in the 1950s Dr. Americo Negrette observed a number of people with a dancing…
- Diabetes, ketosis-prone See Diabetes, type 1
- Adenosine triphosphate An important carrier of energy in cells in the body and a compound that is important in the synthesis (the…
- Cup, optic The white, cup-like area in the center of the optic disc. The optic disk is the circular area at the back of…
- Hygiene The science of preventive medicine and the preservation of health. From the name of Hygeia, the daughter of…
- Shotty Resembling shot or pellets of lead, shotgun pellets and, hence, hard and round. The term 'shotty' was in use…
- Bunion A bunion is a localized painful swelling at the base of the big toe (the great toe). The joint is enlarged…
- Smokeless tobacco Tobacco that is not smoked but used in another form such as chewing tobacco or snuff. Cancers of the oral…
- Medulloblastoma A type of brain tumor that tends to occur in children, arise in the cerebellum (in the lower part of the…
- Sesquipedalian A long polysyllabic word that means having many syllables or using long words, as is all too often the case…