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Stillbirth
The tragic birth of a dead baby, the delivery of a fetus that has died before birth. There is no possibility of resuscitation. The word 'stillbirth' is a fusion of 'still' in the now-obsolete sense of 'dead' and 'birth' = dead birth. The…
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- Writer's cramp A dystonia that affects the muscles of the hand and sometimes the forearm and only occurs during handwriting…
- Painful vulva Also called essential vulvodynia, a chronic, diffuse, unremitting sensation of burning of the vulva -- (the…
- Hardy, James D. Pioneering American transplant surgeon responsible for three epochal operations: the first human lung…
- Somatoform disorder See: Body dysmorphic disorder
- Aniline A chemical compound implicated, along with o-toluidine, in the causation of bladder cancer. Aniline and…
- Eyelid granulation See Blepharitis
- Neuralgia, sphenopalatine A distinctive syndrome of headaches, better known today as cluster headache. There are two main clinical…
- Diabetes, type 2 One of the two major types of diabetes, the type in which the beta cells of the pancreas produce insulin but…
- Giant cell tumor of bone A tumor of bone characterized by massive destruction of the end (epiphysis) of a long bone. The site most…
- Cyst, thyrolingual See: Thyroglossal cyst
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