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Diabetes, adult-onset
Type 2 diabetes. See also Diabetes, type 2
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- Phonosurgery Surgical procedures that maintain, restore, or enhance the human voice. Phonosurgery includes…
- Proinflammatory Capable of promoting inflammation. For example, air pollution may have proinflammatory effects
- Coronary insufficiency Insufficient blood flow through one or more coronary arteries
- Hand-foot-and-mouth disease A viral syndrome with a rash on the hands and feet and in the mouth. The internal rash (the enanthem)…
- BCC Basal cell carcinoma
- Muscular dystrophy, congenital A form of muscular dystrophy that is present at birth. Various types of congenital MD have been identified…
- Sydenham's chorea See: Sydenham chorea
- Laryngoscopy Examination of the larynx with a mirror (indirect laryngoscopy) or with a laryngoscope (direct laryngoscopy)…
- Full gene sequence The complete order of bases in a gene. This order determines which protein a gene will produce
- Disc, slipped Rupturing of the tissue that separates the vertebral bones of the spinal column. The center of the disc…
- EBM Evidence-based medicine