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Hereditary kidney cancer
Kidney cancer due to a gene than can be transmitted from parent to child. The vast majority of kidney cancer cases are not hereditary, but a small proportion of renal cell cancers are caused by hereditary syndromes. Among these syndromes…
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Show more- Meibomitis See: Meibomianitis
- Kerato- Inflammation of the eye involving both the cornea and the conjunctiva. Keratoconjunctivitis can be due to…
- Roentgen, Wilhelm Wilhelm Conrad Rontgen (1845-1923), German-born, Dutch-educated physicist who first observed and documented…
- CHF Congestive heart failure
- Upper motor neuron A neuron that starts in the motor cortex of the brain and terminates within the medulla (another part of the…
- Aneurysm, atherosclerotic See: Atherosclerotic aneurysm
- Amini, Fariborz Iranian-born American psychiatrist (1930-2004), at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF), known…
- AMS (acute mountain sickness) Acute mountain sickness (AMS) is the effect on the body of being in a high altitude environment. AMS is…
- Caffeine A stimulant found naturally in coffee beans, tea leaves, cocoa beans (chocolate) and kola nuts (cola) and…
- Morton's disease See: Morton's neuroma
- Charcoal, activated See: Activated charcoal
- MDMA Abbreviation for 3-4 methylenedioxymethamphetamine. See: Ecstasy