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A common men's health problem characterized by the consistent inability to sustain an erection sufficient for sexual intercourse or the inability to achieve ejaculation, or both. Impotence can vary. It can involve a total inability to…
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Show more- Enteral nutrition Pertaining to the small intestine. Also called (less often) enteral.
- Decompression 1. In general, the removal of pressure.2. In surgery, a procedure to remove pressure on a structure, as in…
- Thoracic Pertaining to the chest
- St. Louis encephalitis A disease caused by a virus (first observed in Illinois in 1932) transmitted from birds to the common Culex…
- Feeding tube See: Enteral nutrition
- Myotonic dystrophy type 2 An inherited disorder of the muscles and other body systems characterized by progressive muscle weakness…
- Exercise cardiac stress testing The most widely used cardiac (heart) screening test. The patient exercises on a treadmill according to a…
- Iatrogenic Due to the action of a physician or a therapy the doctor prescibed. An iatrogenic disease may be…
- Bowel disease, inflammatory A group of chronic intestinal diseases characterized by inflammation of the bowel -- the large or small…
- Acrocephalosyndactyly An inherited disorder causing abnormalities of the skull and face and the hands and feet. In…
- Veisalgia The sober medical term for a hangover. 'There is no consensus definition of veisalgia ('alcohol…
- B variant GM2-gangliosidosis See: Tay-Sachs disease