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Case-fatality proportion
The number of cases of a disease ending in death compared to the number of cases of the disease. Usually expressed as a percentage
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- Pain, chest See: Chest pain
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- Hypoplastic left heart syndrome A form of congenital heart disease in which the whole left half of the heart (including the aorta , aortic…
- Electrophoretic Pertaining to electrophoresis, the separation of molecules according to their size and electrical charge by…
- Diabetic dermopathy A skin condition characteristic of diabetes involving light brown or reddish oval or round scaly patches…