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Crohn enterocolitis
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- XP Xeroderma pigmentosum
- EDMD Muscular dystrophy, Emery-Dreifuss
- Incontinent Unable to control excretions, to hold urine in the bladder or keep feces in the rectum. This is the usual…
- Leukemia, blastic phase of Leukemia, blastic phase of: A stage in which 30 percent or more of the cells in the bone marrow or blood are…
- Carboxyhemoglobin Hemoglobin that has carbon monoxide instead of the normal oxygen bound to it. Carbon monoxide has a much…
- Carb Slang for carbohydrate. Mainly sugars and starches, together constituting one of the three principal types of…
- Ophthalmologist An eye doctor. A physician practicing ophthalmology. An ophthalmologist is an M.D.
- Steroid A general class of chemical substances that are structurally related to one another and share the same…
- Primordium In embryology, organ or tissue in its earliest recognizable stage of development. As, for example, the…
- Cervical disc A disk shaped piece of specialized tissue that separates the vertebral bones of the spinal column in the…
- Amyloidosis, secondary Amyloidosis, secondary : One of a group of diseases (called amyloidosis) in which protein deposits (amyloid)…