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Rickettsiosis, North Asian tick-borne
One of the tick-borne rickettsial diseases of the eastern hemisphere, similar to Rocky Mountain spotted fever, but less severe, with fever, a small ulcer (eschar) at the site of the tick bite, swollen glands nearby (satellite…
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Show more- Condition The term 'condition' has a number of biomedical meanings including the following: > >An unhealthy state, such…
- Rhinoplasty Rhinoplasty: Plastic surgery on the nose, known familiarly as a nose job. Rhinoplasty is a facial cosmetic…
- Health Insurance Portability Accountability Act T: See: HIPAA
- Disease, His-Werner Named for the Swiss physician Wilhelm His, Jr. (who also described the bundle of His in the heart) and the…
- Complementary medicine A group of diagnostic and therapeutic disciplines that are used together with conventional medicine. An…
- Hormone therapy Hormone therapy: A form of treatment that takes advantage of the fact that certain cancers depend on hormones…
- Hemophobia An abnormal and persistent fear of blood. Sufferers of this very common phobia dread the sight of their own…
- Idiopathic Of unknown cause. Any disease that is of uncertain or unknown origin may be termed idiopathic. For example…
- Gram stain The Danish bacteriologist J.M.C. Gram (1853-1938) devised a method of staining bacteria using a dye called…
- Radiation therapy, conformational A procedure that uses computers to create a 3-dimensional picture of the tumor in order to target the tumor…
- Syndactyly, bony A condition in which the bones of fingers or toes are joined together. Bony syndactyly is the opposite of…
- Pancreas A fish-shaped spongy grayish-pink organ about 6 inches (15 cm) long that stretches across the back of the…