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Corns
Corns: Small calloused areas of skin caused by local pressure irritating tissue over a bony prominence. Corns most commonly occur over a toe where they form what is referred to as a hard corn. Between the toes, pressure can form a soft…
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- Miliary tuberculosis See: Tuberculosis, miliary
- Intensive care See critical care
- Cubital tunnel The opening between the two heads of a muscle through which the ulnar nerve passes at the elbow and enters…
- Medicins Sans Frontieres A group which sends physicians and other health workers to some of the most destitute and dangerous parts of…
- Lithotripsy A procedure to break a stone into small particles that can be passed in the urine.
- Cranial nerve III The third cranial nerve is the oculomotor nerve. The cranial nerves emerge from or enter the skull (the…
- PMD Pelizaeus-Merzbacher disease
- Subacute spongiform encephalopathy See: Gerstmann-Straussler-Scheinker syndrome
- Laribacter hongkongensis A novel type of bacterium first isolated in Hong Kong in 2001 from the blood and empyema (pus in the chest)…
- Embolism, pulmonary The obstruction of the pulmonary artery or a branch of it leading to the lungs by a blood clot, usually from…