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Rhinitis, allergic
The medical term for hayfever. (Hay fever is a misnomer since hay is not a usual cause of this problem and there is no fever. Many substances cause the allergic symptoms in hay fever. Allergic rhinitis is the correct term for this allergic…
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Show more- Base of tongue The back third of the tongue. In contrast to the anterior tongue, which is the front two-thirds of the…
- Marriage, cousin A form of consanguinity. Everyone carries recessive alleles, genes that are generally innocuous in the…
- House Hospital. As in house officer, house staff, and house surgeon
- LOD score In genetics, a statistical estimate of whether two loci (the sites of genes) are likely to lie near each…
- Endoscope A surgical procedure for placing a feeding tube without having to perform an open laparotomy (operation on…
- Morton's nerve entrapment See: Morton's neuroma
- Artemidorus Artemidorus of Daldis. Greek physician who wrote Oneirocritica, a work dedicated to the interpretation of…
- Cancer of the cervix See: Cervical cancer
- Esophageal cancer Esophageal cancer: A malignant tumor of the esophagus. The risk of cancer of the esophagus is increased by…
- Laser surgery, YAG The use of a YAG (yttrium-aluminum-garnet) laser to do surgery. One use for a YAG laser in surgery is to…
- Chlortetracycline The first drug of the tetracycline family, to be introduced (in 1948). For more information, see: Tetracycline
- Antiretroviral therapy (ART) Treatment that suppresses or stops a retrovirus. One of the retrovirus is the human immunodeficiency virus…