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Argyria
Silver poisoning resulting in ashen gray discolored skin (and other tissues of the body). Due to long-term use of silver salts. For example, a medical report related the case of a woman, now in her 50s, with discolored skin. At 11 she had…
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Show more- Anemic Relating to anemia, the condition of having less than the normal number of red blood cells or less than the…
- Type 2 diabetes See Diabetes, type 2.
- UGA A triplet consisting of uracil,guanine, adenine, in that order, that acts as a stop codon in messenger RNA…
- Ankylosing spondylitis Ankylosing spondylitis: A type of arthritis that causes chronic inflammation of the spine and the sacroiliac…
- Lumbar puncture Lumbar puncture: A lumbar puncture or 'LP' is a procedure whereby spinal fluid is removed from the spinal…
- Maternal myasthenia gravis Myasthenia gravis: The presence of myasthenia gravis in a pregnant woman. Myasthenia gravis is an autoimmune…
- Transplantation, cross-species A new technique in which stem cells are obtained from a patient's blood and used in bone marrow…
- Score, Gleason A grading system for prostate carcinoma. See Gleason score
- Vaccine, live polio See: Polio vaccine, oral
- Synovitis Inflammation of the synovial membrane, the lining of the joint
- Icterus Jaundice. At least one medical dictionary defines icterus as the presence of jaundice seen in the sclera of…
- Dipper A person in whom there is the normal nocturnal fall (dip) in blood pressure. The opposite of a dipper is a…