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Mite-borne typhus
Scrub: typhus, a mite-borne infectious disease caused by a microorganism, Rickettsia tsutsugamushi, characteristically with fever, headache, a raised (macular) rash, swollen glands (lymphadenopathy) and a dark crusted ulcer (called an…
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Show more- Cortical blindness Blindness due to loss or injury to the visual cortex, that section of the cerebral cortex responsible for…
- Primitive neuroectodermal tumor One of a remarkable group of tumors that originate in cells from the primitive neural crest and share the…
- Elbow bursitis Elbow bursitis: At the tip of the elbow (the olecranon area), there is a bursa, a fluid-filled sac that…
- Tarsal tunnel syndrome A type of compression neuropathy (nerve disease due to compression of the nerve) in the ankle and foot…
- Hammer The malleus
- Phenomenon, Raynaud's A condition resulting in discoloration of fingers and/or toes when a person is exposed to changes in…
- Adult-onset diabetes Type 2 diabetes. See also Diabetes, type 2
- Amnesic aphasia See Anomia.
- Tarantismo See: Tarantism.
- Omphalo- A birth defect in which part of the intestine, covered only by a thin transparent membrane, protrudes outside…
- Axillary hyperhidrosis Hyperhidrosis: Excessive sweating from the armpits. Excessive underarm perspiration tends to start in late…
- Rickets A disease of infants and children that disturbs normal bone formation (ossification). Rickets is a failure to…