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Sick sinus syndrome
Symptoms of dizziness, confusion, fainting, and heart failure due to a problem with the sinus node of the heart, which acts as the body's natural pacemaker. If the sinus node is not functioning normally, it is reflected in an abnormally…
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- Motor neuron disease A group of neurological diseases characterized by steadily progressive deterioration of the motor neurons in…
- Velpeau hernia Hernia: A hernia in the groin in front of the femoral blood vessels. A hernia ('rupture') is a protrusion of…
- Variolation The old practice of inoculating someone with the virus of smallpox to produce immunity to the disease. Lady…
- Traumatology The branch of surgery that deals with trauma patients and their injuries. Patients who have suffered…
- C-IBS Constipation-predominant IBS (irritable bowel syndrome)
- Inhalant 1. Generally, any breathable chemical vapor.2. Specifically, a psychoactive substance whose volatile vapors…
- CDHR Center for Devices & Radiological Health, part of the FDA (the US Food & Drug Administration)
- Pancreatic cancer Pancreatic cancer: Malignancy of the pancreas. Pancreatic cancer has been called a 'silent' disease because…
- Test, physiologic stress Although there can be a diversity of physiologic stress tests, this refers here to a physiologic cardiac…
- Health, Aleut See: Artic health