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Corn
A small calloused area of skin caused by local pressure irritating tissue over a bony prominence. Corns most commonly occur over a toe where they form what is referred to as a hard corn. Between the toes, pressure can form a soft corn of…
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Show more- Cranial arteritis A serious disease characterized by inflammation of the walls of the blood vessels (vasculitis). The vessels…
- Kiss A touch or caress with the lips. 'The anatomical juxtaposition of two orbicularis oris muscles in a state of…
- Dermatology 1. The branch of medicine concerned with the diagnosis, treatment, and prevention of diseases of the skin…
- Masklike face An expressionless face with little or no sense of animation, a face more like a mask than a real face. A…
- Tick, Rocky Mountain wood See Rocky Mountain wood tick
- Pyrophosphate arthropathy Joint damage due to deposition of calcium pyrophosphate. Pyrophosphate arthropathy most commonly affects the…
- PLP1 The gene encoding proteolipid protein, or lipophilin, the primary constituent of myelin. The PLP1 gene is on…
- Subconjunctival hemorrhage Hemorrhage: A very common cause of a painless bloody eye usually first noticed by somebody else or by the…
- Blastocystis hominis The parasitic organism that causes blastocystosis. See Blastocystosis
- Scleredema adultorum A misleading term since scleredema can also occur in children. See: Scleredema
- Computerized axial tomography scan Pictures of structures within the body created by a computer that takes the data from multiple X-ray images…
- NCS Nerve conduction study. See: Nerve conduction velocity test