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Shin bone fever
Fever: Called shin bone fever because it characteristically causes fever and pain in the legs, this disease is also known as trench fever. It is a disease borne by body lice that was first recognized in the trenches of World War I, when it…
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Show more- Orchitis Inflammation of the testis (male sex organ). There are many causes of inflammation of the testis including…
- Thimerosal A mercury-containing preservative used in some vaccines and other products since the 1930's. No harmful…
- Consumption An old and once common term for wasting away of the body, particularly from pulmonary tuberculosis (TB)…
- Radiation oncologist A specialist in the use of radiation therapy as a treatment for cancer
- Fecalith A hard stony mass of feces. A fecalith can obstruct the appendix, leading to appendicitis. Fecaliths also can…
- Family history The family structure and relationships within the family, including information about diseases in family…
- Hyperosmolar In biochemistry, pertaining to an osmolar concentration of the body fluids that is abnormally increased. As…
- Ramsay Hunt, James Pre-eminent 20th-century American neurologist (1872-1937) who described a number of important diseases…
- Craniocleidodysostosis >Typical cranial and facial abnormalities with square skull, late closure of the sutures of the skull, late…
- Metabolic Relating to metabolism, the whole range of biochemical processes that occur within us (or any living…
- Barium enema Barium enema: A series of x-rays of the lower intestine (colon) and rectum that are taken after the patient…
- PSC (primary sclerosing cholangitis) See: Primary sclerosing cholangitis