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CCD (Central core disease of muscle)
One of the conditions that produces 'floppy baby' syndrome. CCD causes hypotonia (floppiness) in the newborn baby, slowly progressive muscle weakness, and muscle cramps after exercise. Muscle biopsy shows a key diagnostic finding (absent…
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Show more- Subscapular Under the scapula, like the subscapularis muscle, which originates beneath the scapula.
- Pinosome A tiny fluid-filled vesicle (bubble) within a cell. Pinosomes are created in the process of pinocytosis in…
- TSH Stands for thyroid stimulating hormone, a hormone produced by the pituitary gland at the base of the brain in…
- Macrobiotic Macrobiotic refers to the macrobiota, a region's living organisms (or flora and fauna) large enough to be…
- Conformational radiation therapy A procedure that uses computers to create a 3-dimensional picture of the tumor in order to target the tumor…
- Chromosome, X See: Chronic myelogenous leukemia.
- Apheresis The process of removing a specific component from blood and returning the remaining components to the donor…
- Autosomal Pertaining to a chromosome that is not a sex chromosome; relating to any one of the chromosomes save the sex…
- Plummer-Vinson syndrome Iron deficiency anemia, esophageal webs, and dysphagia (difficulty swallowing). The iron deficiency is…
- Pressure neuropathy Neuropathy: 'Pinching' a nerve by putting too much pressure on it. For example, the sciatic nerve may be…
- Fahr syndrome This syndrome described in 1930 by T. Fahr is a genetic (inherited) neurological disorder characterized by…
- Node, sinoatrial The sinoatrial is one of the major elements in the cardiac conduction system, the system that controls the…