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Apraxia
The inability to execute a voluntary motor movement despite being able to demonstrate normal muscle function. Apraxia is not related to a lack of understanding or to any kind of physical paralysis but is caused by a problem in the cortex…
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- Gymnophobia An abnormal and persistent fear of nudity. Sufferers of this phobia experience undue anxiety even though they…
- Percutaneous Through the skin, as in a percutaneous biopsy
- Syndrome, Creutzfeldt-Jakob Better known as Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD). A dementing disease of the brain. It is believed due to an…
- Children of the night Term applied sometimes to children with xeroderma pigmentosum, a genetic disease with such extraordinary…
- Telomerase An enzyme concerned with the formation, maintenance, and renovation of telomeres, the ends of chromosomes…
- DOE Department of Energy, U.S. One of the agencies contributing to the Human Genome Project
- Shin splint An inflammatory condition of the front part of the tibia (the big bone in the lower leg) that results from…
- Intraocular pressure The pressure created by the continual renewal of fluids within the eye. The intraocular pressure is increased…
- Tamponade, cardiac A life-threatening situation in which there is such a large amount of fluid (usually blood) inside the…
- PAT Paroxysmal atrial tachycardia