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Cracked tooth syndrome
A toothache caused by a broken tooth (tooth fracture) without associated cavity or advanced gum disease. Biting on the area of tooth fracture can cause severe sharp pains. These fractures are usually due to chewing or biting hard objects…
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Show more- Unconscious 1. Interruption of awareness of oneself and one's surroundings, lack of the ability to notice or respond to…
- Heart transplant Heart transplant: A surgical procedure in which a diseased heart is replaced with a healthy heart from a…
- Marker, blood A sign of a disease or condition that can be isolated from a blood sample. For example, the monoclonal…
- Macrognathia An abnormally large jaw. This condition is associated with pituitary gigantism, tumors, and other disorders…
- Kyphosis, postmenopausal cervical An outward curvature (kyphosis) of the cervical vertebrae (the bones of the neck), creating a hump at the…
- Disease, Tsutsugamushi Scrub typhus, a mite-borne infectious disease caused by a microorganism, Rickettsia tsutsugamushi…
- Abruption A sudden breaking off or away. Abruption of the placenta (abruptio placentae) is the premature separation of…
- Aphasia, acquired epileptiform See Landau-Kleffner syndrome
- Hansen's disease See: Hansen disease
- Gargoylism From the French gargouille (waterspout), the word conveys the often-grotesque image of the medieval cathedral…
- Kanner syndrome (Also called autism). A spectrum of neuropsychiatric disorders characterized by deficits in social…
- Syndrome, long QT See Long QT syndrome