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Acrodermatitis enteropathica
An historic model for the therapy of genetic disease. In an era (the 1950s) when inherited disorders were usually seen as hopeless, this progressive hereditary (autosomal recessive) disease of children was found treatable. Acrodermatitis…
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- Psychiatric Pertaining to or within the purview of psychiatry, the medical specialty concerned with the prevention…
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- Crack (drug) The street name given to cocaine that has been processed from cocaine hydrochloride to a ready-to-use free…
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- HELLP syndrome A syndrome featuring a combination of 'H' for hemolysis (the breakdown of red blood cells), 'EL' for elevated…
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