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Herpesvirus
One of a family of double-stranded DNA viruses that cause common infections in humans. These include: herpes, CMV, chickenpox, shingles, mono, measles, and Kaposi sarcoma. The herpesviruses may live latently in a person for years or even…
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Show more- Plasmodium The parasite guilty in the case of malaria (paludism). Plasmodium is a type of protozoa, a single-celled…
- Blind spot In ophthalmology, a blind spot is: > >A small area of the retina where the optic nerve enters the eye; this…
- Bile acid resin Bile acid resins are substances that bind in the intestines with bile acids that contain cholesterol and are…
- H and P In common doctor language, H stands for history and P for physical. So H and P = the history and physical…
- Test, sweat chloride See: Sweat test
- Newborn test, Brazelton A widely used test of the newborn baby as to their neurologic status and developmental progress. The…
- AFO (ankle-foot orthosis) Ankle-foot orthosis
- Normal tension glaucoma See: Glaucoma, normal tension
- Pruritus Itching. Pruritus can result from drug reaction, food allergy, kidney or liver disease, cancers, parasites…
- Linkage analysis Study aimed at establishing linkage between genes. Today linkage analysis serves as a way of gene-hunting and…
- Brill-Zinsser disease Recrudescence of epidemic typhus years after the initial attack. The agent that causes epidemic typhus…
- Disorders, lymphoproliferative Malignant diseases of the lymphoid cells and cells from the reticuloendothelial system (which take up and…