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Brazelton newborn test
A widely used test of the newborn baby as to their neurologic status and developmental progress. The Brazelton newborn test is formally called the Neonatal Behavioral Assessment Scale (NBAS). However, the NBAS which was devised by the…
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Show more- Disorders, myeloproliferative Malignant diseases of certain bone marrow cells including those that give rise to the red blood cells, the…
- Impotence Impotence: A common problem among men characterized by the consistent inability to sustain an erection…
- Silk Road disease Behcet's disease. Called Silk Road disease because it is most common and more severe in people originating…
- Model end stage liver disease See: MELD
- Cat scratch disease Cat scratch disease: A bacterial infection due to a cat scratch seen most often today in people with HIV. The…
- Lymphoma, indolent See: Indolent lymphoma
- Adnexa This Latin word (in the plural) is used in medicine in reference to appendages. For example, in gynecology…
- Vitamin B -- nicotinic acid Deficiency of nicotinic acid (also known as niacin), one of the B-complex vitamins, causes pellagra. Pellagra…
- Pachy- (prefix) Thick. As in pachydactyly (thick fingers), pachydermatous (thick fingers) and pachyonychia (thick nails)…
- Artery, ophthalmic The ophthalmic artery supplies blood to the eye and adjacent structures of face. It arises from the internal…
- Rounds The act of seeing patients in the hospital or another in-patient setting. After doing his hospital rounds…
- Acute idiopathic polyneuritis Also known as the Guillain-Barre syndrome, a disorder characterized by progressive symmetrical paralysis and…