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Testicles
The testicles (also called testes or gonads) are the male sex glands. They are located behind the penis in a pouch of skin called the scrotum. The testicles produce and store sperm, and they are also the body's main source of male hormones…
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- Gluten enteropathy A condition, also called celiac sprue, in which the absorption of food nutrients through the small intestine…
- African tick typhus One of the tick-borne rickettsial diseases of the eastern hemisphere, similar to Rocky Mountain spotted…
- HEV Hepatitis E virus
- Hecht's pneumonia Pneumonia: Also known as giant cell pneumonia, this is a deadly but fortunately rare complication of measles…
- EBM Evidence-based medicine
- TIPS TIPS stands for 'transjugular, intrahepatic, portosystemic shunt.' It is a shunt (tube) placed between the…
- Spirochete A microscopic bacterial organism in the Spirochaeta family. Spirochetes have a worm-like, spiral-shaped form…
- Test, rapid strep A diagnostic test commonly used to demonstrate whether streptococcus bacteria ('strep') are present in the…
- Typhus, epidemic A severe acute disease with prolonged high fever up to 40° C (104° F), intractable headache, and a…
- Peripheral blood stem cell transplantation Peripheral blood stem cell transplantation: A new technique in which stem cells are obtained from a patient's…
- Eye The organ of sight. The eye has a number of components. These components include but are not limited to the…