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Shock syndrome, dengue
A syndrome due to the dengue virus that tends to affect children under 10, causing abdominal pain, hemorrhage (bleeding) and circulatory collapse (shock). Known also as dengue hemorrhagic fever (DHF), it starts abruptly with high…
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Show more- Underwater weighing A method for determining the lean body mass. This method weighs a person underwater and then calculates the…
- Frozen shoulder Frozen shoulder: Constant severe limitation of the range of motion of the shoulder due to scarring around the…
- Labial sounds The lips are not only anatomic features of note, they are organs of speech essential to certain…
- Septal defect, ventricular (VSD) A hole in the septum (the wall) between the lower chambers of the heart (the ventricles). Ventricular Septal…
- Balanoposthitis In the uncircumcised male, balanitis (inflammation of the glans, the rounded head of the penis) and posthitis…
- Hypocarbia Less than the normal level of carbon dioxide in the blood. The opposite of hypercarbia
- Metabonomics The study of metabolic responses to drugs, environmental changes and diseases. Metabonomics is an extension…
- Fracture, hangman's See: Hangman's fracture
- Urothelium The lining of the ureters, urinary bladder, and urethra. NTER>
- Sundowning Also known as Sundown Syndrome, a term used to refer to behavioral changes that often occur in the late…
- Melanoma, ciliary body See: Intraocular melanoma
- Retinal electrophysiologic testing See: Electrophysiologic retinal testing