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Pustule
A pustule is a small collection of pus in the top layer of skin (epidermis) or beneath it in the dermis. Pustules frequently form in sweat glands or hair follicles. Pus is a mixture of inflammatory cells and liquid. Put somewhat more…
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- Gaucher disease, types 2-5 A series of disease due to glucocerebrosidase deficiency and accumulation of glucocerebroside in cells. By…
- Epidural Outside the dura, the outermost, toughest, and most fibrous of the three membranes (meninges) covering the…
- Disease, polycystic ovarian Scrub typhus, a mite-borne infectious disease caused by a microorganism, Rickettsia tsutsugamushi…
- Hemorrhagic cyst This type of functional cyst occurs when bleeding occurs within a cyst. Symptoms such as abdominal pain on…
- TSC1 The tuberous sclerosis 1 gene. The product of the TSC1 gene is a protein called hamartin. This protein…
- Hemolytic jaundice, congenital Jaundice, congenital: Known also as hereditary spherocytosis (HS), this is a genetic disorder of the red…
- Cartilage hair hypoplasia syndrome A specific genetic form of short-limbed dwarfism with skeletal features that also include normal head…
- Miasmic Pertaining to a miasma, a poisonous vapor or mist that was once widely believed to be made up of particles…
- Endoderm One of the three primary germ cell layers -- the other two are the mesoderm and ectoderm -- in the very early…
- Pregnancy radiation exposure See: Prenatal radiation exposure
- Flat condyloma A manifestation of the secondary stage of syphilis that takes the form of broad flat wartlike growths in…