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Paleolithic diet
The Paleolithic diet is a weight loss plan based upon the premise of consuming only those foods available during the Paleolithic era (also known as the Stone Age). People at this time were hunter-gatherers, meaning that all animals were…
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Show more- Euploid The normal number of chromosomes for a species. In humans, the euploid number of chromosomes is 46 with the…
- Illness, heat-related A person with symptoms including headache, nausea, and fatigue after exposure to heat probably has some…
- Differentiation therapy Differentiation therapy: An approach to the treatment of advanced or aggressive malignancies in which the…
- Erythrasma A chronic superficial slowly spreading skin infection, especially in the folds of the body and webs between…
- Hormone, androgenic Any hormone that promotes the development and maintenance of the male sex characteristics. Testosterone is an…
- Allergic reaction The hypersensitive response of the immune system of an allergic individual to a substance. When an allergen…
- Seizure, jackknife See: Infantile spasms
- Pyelo Short for pyelonephritis, which is bacterial infection of the kidney. Pyelonephritis can be acute (sudden) or…
- Scoliosis, congenital A structurally normal spine that appears to have a lateral curve (scoliosis). Nonstructural scoliosis…
- Imitrex Brand name for sumatriptan, a triptan drug for the treatment of migraine
- NCS Nerve conduction study. See: Nerve conduction velocity test
- Eye, small Also called microphthalmia, an abnormally small eye, a congenital malformation (birth defect) of the globe…