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Sickness, morning
Nausea and vomiting of pregnancy. Morning sickness is a misnomer, because it can occur at any time of the day (though not at night during sleep) and it is not a sickness. It is a normal characteristic of early pregnancy. Morning sickness…
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- Ultrasound, endoscopic See: Endoscopic ultrasound
- Breast, infiltrating ductal carcinoma of the Infiltrating lobular carcinoma is the second most common type of invasive breast cancer next to infiltrating…
- Health Care Finance Administration See: HCFA
- American Academy of Family Physicians (AAFP) >To provide responsible advocacy for and education of patients and the public in all health-related matters…
- Night blindness Impaired vision in dim light and in the dark, due to impaired function of specific vision cells (namely, the…
- Postmaturity Overly mature, overly developed, especially as regards a baby. A baby born 2 weeks (14 days) or more after…
- Reaven syndrome See: Metabolic syndrome
- Anxiety disorder, social Excessive fear of embarrassment in social situations that is extremely intrusive and can have debilitating…
- Test, Brazelton A widely used test of the newborn baby as to their neurologic status and developmental progress. The…
- Transient global amnesia A passing episode of short-term memory loss without other signs or symptoms of neurological impairment. In…
- Enoxaparin Enoxaparin: A low-molecular-weight version of heparin which acts like heparin as an anticoagulant…