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Vibration white finger
The original name for a painful and potentially disabling condition of the fingers, hans, and arms due to vibration. Known now preferably as the hand-arm vibration syndrome. In this syndrome, there is initially a tingling sensation in the…
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Show more- Hypochondriasm See: Hypochondriasis
- Nipah virus A virus that infects pigs and people in whom it causes a sometimes fatal form of viral encephalitis (brain…
- Amenia Better known as amenorrhea, amenia is the absence or cessation of menstruation. Amenorrhea is conventionally…
- Condition The term 'condition' has a number of biomedical meanings including the following: > >An unhealthy state, such…
- System, sympathetic nervous A part of nervous system that accelerates the heart rate, constricts blood vessels, and raises blood…
- Trich- (prefix) Pertaining to hair. As in trichinosis, a disease due to the parasite Trichinella spiralis which was thought…
- Factitious disease by proxy See: Munchhausen syndrome by proxy
- Malar Referring to the cheek.
- IRB Institutional Review Board
- SDF-1 An intensely itchy rash due to contact with the tiny thimble jellyfish (Linuche unguiculata). These jellyfish…
- Deficiency, vitamin K A lack of vitamin K resulting in an increase in the clotting time of the blood, impaired clotting and a…
- Recombinant tPA Recombinant tissue plasminogen activator. See: Tissue plasminogen activator