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Leishmaniasis, visceral
See: Visceral leishmaniasis
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- Muscular dystrophy, limb-girdle One of a group of diseases that may begin in childhood or later with slowly progressive weakness and wasting…
- Trait In genetics, a trait refers to any genetically determined characteristic. In technical terms, a genetic trait…
- Smell, inability to No sense of smell is called anosmia. It can be due to loss of the sense of smell or failure for it to…
- Obsessive-compulsive personality disorder A personality disorder characterized by a pervasive preoccupation with orderliness, perfectionism, and…
- Primary cataract See: Cataract, primary
- Stem cell, spermatogonial See: Sperm stem cell
- Hypnic 1. Inducing sleep. 2. Pertaining to sleep. A hypnic jerk is a sleep start or jerk. From the Greek hypnikos…
- Avian tuberculosis See: Tuberculosis, avian
- Nucleus, arcuate See: Arcuate nucleus
- Venous aneurysm A local widening and bulging (an aneurysm) of a vein. As opposed to an arterial aneurysm or a cardiac…