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Medical vocabulary with 16,436 clear, complete and reliable definitions.
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The most complete online medical dictionary: 16,436 terms covering anatomy, physiology, pathologies, diagnostic exams, pharmacology and every clinical specialty.
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Life-support
A disease associated with the way a person or group of people lives. Lifestyle diseases include atherosclerosis, heart disease, and stroke; obesity and type 2 diabetes; and diseases associated with smoking and alcohol and drug abuse…
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Show more- Phytochemical The active health-protecting compounds that are found as components of plants. Currently, the terms…
- Fear of depths An abnormal and persistent fear of depths. Sufferers of this fear experience anxiety even though they realize…
- Helminth A worm classified as a parasite. (A parasite is a disease-causing organism that lives on or in a human or…
- Ankylosing spondylitis Ankylosing spondylitis: A type of arthritis that causes chronic inflammation of the spine and the sacroiliac…
- Open-label A term used to describe the situation when both the researcher and the participant in a research study know…
- Deficiency, LCHAD Acute fatty liver of pregnancy (AFLP) has been found to be associated in some cases with an abnormality of…
- Tandem mass spectrometry An instrument used in medical laboratories consisting of two mass spectrometers in series connected by a…
- Cor pulmonale Heart disease that results from abnormally high resistance to the passage of blood through the lungs; it…
- Burkholderia cepacia (B. cepacia, for short.) A group of bacteria found in soil and water that are often resistant to common…
- Gigantism, eunuchoid Extremely tall stature due to the delayed onset of puberty which permits the continued growth of the long…
- Histoplasmosis A disease caused by the fungus Histoplasma capsulatum. Most people with histoplasmosis have no symptoms…
- Nannycam See: Nanny cam