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Syndrome, Barlow
Barlow syndrome is mitral valve prolapse (also known as 'click murmur syndrome'), the most common heart valve abnormality, affecting 5-10% of the world population. Most patients have no symptoms and require no treatment. However, the…
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Show more- Solipsism The doctrine that I alone exist. The self can know only its feelings and changes. There is only subjective…
- Paralysis, laryngeal nerve Paralysis of the recurrent laryngeal nerve, a branch of the vagus nerve (a long and important nerve that…
- Bloody show 1. The blood-tinged mucus created by extrusion and passage of the mucous plug that filled the cervical canal…
- Lymphocytic Referring to lymphocytes, a type of white blood cell.
- Teething Teething is the emergence of the primary (baby) teeth through a baby or child's gums. Teething usually begins…
- Arthritis, Lyme Inflammation of the joints associated with Lyme disease, a bacterial disease spread by ticks
- Arrhythmias, rapid Abnormally rapid heart rhythms, medically termed tachycardia
- Chorion The outermost of the two fetal membranes - the amnion is the innermost --. which together surround the…
- Rehab Short for Rehabilitation
- Luteinizing hormone A hormone released by the pituitary gland in response to luteinizing hormone- releasing hormone. Abbreviated…
- Adjuvant therapy Treatment that is given in addition to the primary (initial) treatment. Adjuvant treatment is an addition…
- Tetracycline Tetracycline: A family of broad-spectrum antibiotics effective against a remarkably wide variety of…