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- Channel, ion See: Ion channel
- Trench mouth A progressive painful infection of the mouth and throat with ulceration, swelling and sloughing off of dead…
- Denervation Loss of nerve supply. There are many causes of denervation. Denervation may be due to a disease as, for…
- Optic disc The circular area in the back of the inside of the eye where the optic nerve connects to the retina. Also…
- Anterior cruciate ligament A ligament in the knee that crosses from the underside of the femur (the thigh bone) to the top of the tibia…
- Poikiloderma congenita Better known as the Rothmund-Thomson syndrome, this is an hereditary disease characterized by progressive…
- Vertebra, prominent The 7th cervical (neck) vertebra (C7) is sometimes called the prominent vertebra because of the length of its…
- Nephroblastomatosis The presence of multiple embryonic rests of tissue within the kidney. These nephrogenic rests usually are…
- Ulcer, duodenal See: Duodenal ulcer
- Cramping leg pain A serious disease characterized by inflammation of the walls of the blood vessels (vasculitis). The vessels…
- Encephalitis, eastern equine See: Eastern equine encephalitis