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Danon disease
A genetic disorder characterized by heart problems, mental retardation and muscle weakness that affects males who usually die of cardiac arrhythmia or heart failure at around the age of 30. The disease is due to a deficiency of LAMP-2…
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Show more- Asplenic Pertaining to asplenia, the state of being without a spleen or without a functional spleen. The spleen can be…
- Klippel-Feil phenotype See: Klippel-Feil sequence
- Bone cyst, simple A solitary fluid-filled cyst (cavity) in a bone, usually in the shaft of a long bone, especially the humerus…
- Prosthesis, nasal See: Nasal prosthesis
- Fistulize To form or make a fistula, an abnormal passageway. As, for example, fistulizing Crohn's disease
- Gyrus lingualis See: Lingual gyrus
- Legg disease See Legg-Calve-Perthes disease
- Serratus One of several muscles of the back and thorax. that have interdigitating slips that ressemble the notches on…
- Biopsy, endometrial See: Endometrial biopsy
- Unicellular Consisting of one cell only. Some organisms, such as bacteria, are unicellular. Unicellular is in contrast to…
- Tumor registry Recorded information about the status of patients with tumors. Although a registry was originally the place…
- Basilar fracture A break in bone at the base of the skull. About a half of basilar fractures are caused by bicycle or motor…