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Alice in Wonderland syndrome
A syndrome of distorted space, time and body image. The patient with the Alice in Wonderland syndrome has a feeling that their entire body or parts of it have been altered in shape and size. The syndrome is usually associated with visual…
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- Aphonia Inability to speak.
- Stenosis, pulmonary The pulmonary valve is too tight so that the flow of blood from the right ventricle of the heart into the…
- Abortive polio Abortive polio is a minor illness. It accounts for 80-90% of clinically apparent cases of polio infection…
- Effects, fetal rubella The constellation of abnormalities, also called the rubella syndrome, caused by infection with the rubella…
- Disease, Quincke's This is angioneurotic edema (or angioedema), a form of localized swelling of the deeper layers of the skin…
- Pharmacist A professional who fills prescriptions, and in the case of a compounding pharmacist, makes them. Pharmacists…
- Fever, typhoid See: Typhoid fever
- T-4 count A test that counts the number of T- 4 cells in the blood, usually to assess the immune status of a patient…
- Disease, Still See: Arthritis, systemic-onset juvenile rheumatoid
- Ferroniere A jewel held to the forehead by a chain worn by women in France and Italy in the 16th century to hide the…
- Enterocele 1. Any hernia containing small intestine. 2. Hernia (protrusion) of the small intestine into the upper wall…