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Organic brain syndrome
Psychiatric or neurological symptoms, including problems with attention, concentration, and memory, confusion, anxiety, and depression, arising from damage to or disease in the brain. Also called organic mental disorder. See also…
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- Muscle, infraspinatus >The infraspinatus muscle; >The teres minor muscle, which (like the infraspinatus muscle) helps in the…
- Cancer, bladder Cancer of the organ responsible for temporarily holding urine after it leaves the kidneys. The most common…
- Hospital gown A short collarless gown that ties in the back, worn by patients being examined or treated in a doctor's…
- Medicalize To identify a condition as a disorder requiring medical treatment. The term 'medicalize' is usually used in a…
- Cell, totipotent A cell with the capacity to form an entire organism. Human development begins when a sperm fertilizes an egg…
- Amino acid, essential An amino acid that cannot be made by humans and so is essential to the human diet. There are 9 essential…
- Bovine Having to do with cows and cattle, as in bovine spongiform encephalopathy (mad cow disease), bovine…