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Encephalitis, Rasmussen
A rare progressive neurological disorder that is characterized by intractable seizures and progressive neurologic deterioration. To be more precise, there are frequent and severe seizures (convulsions), progressive loss of motor skills and…
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- Cholesterol Cholesterol: The most common type of steroid in the body, cholesterol has gotten something of a bad name…
- Arthritis, systemic-onset chronic rheumatoid See: Arthritis, systemic-onset juvenile rheumatoid (Still's disease)
- Hypnic jerk The common normal phenomenon of jerking awake, usually accompanied by a feeling of falling, just as one is…
- Fever, scarlet Also called scarlatina, a disease caused by infection with group A streptococcal bacteria that occurs in a…
- Von Willebrand disease Voyeurism is a disorder that involves achieving sexual arousal by observing an unsuspecting and…
- Rheumatism, psychogenic Rheumatism in which the patient reports inconsistent pains of muscles and joints that do not correspond to…
- Deja vu (In French, dejà vu means 'already seen.' and the word dejà has an acute accent on the e and a grave accent…
- Good Samaritan Someone who voluntarily helps someone else who is in distress. The term 'Good Samaritan' comes from the…
- Hormone, thyroxine A chemical substance made by the thyroid gland The thyroid gland uses iodine to make thyroid hormones…
- Lues 1. Relating to syphilis, caused by it, or suffering from it. 2. A person with syphilis. From lues, an old…
- Nephrosis Non-inflammatory, non-neoplastic disease of the kidney. Nephrosis an be caused by kidney disease, or it may…