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Urinary tract infection
Infection of the kidney, ureter, bladder, or urethra. Not everyone with a UTI has symptoms. Common symptoms include a frequent urge to urinate and a painful, burning when urinating. More females than males have UTIs. Underlying conditions…
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- Test, allergy scratch Allergy scratch: Test done on the skin to identify the allergy substance (the allergen) that is the trigger…
- Spectrophotometer A device which measures the amount of ultraviolet light absorbed by a substance. For example, vitamin A…
- Phobia An unreasonable sort of fear that can cause avoidance and panic. Phobias are a relatively common type of…
- Mutism, elective Complete lack of speech (mutism) that is believed to be volitional (willed) on the part of the patient. True…
- C. difficile Clostridium difficile
- Mortality rate, infant The number of children dying under a year of age divided by the number of live births that year. The infant…
- Proctitis Inflammation of the rectum. This may be due to a considerable number of causes, among them infectious agents…
- Technology, recombinant DNA A series of procedures used to join together (recombine) DNA segments. A recombinant DNA molecule is…
- Jennerian method The production of immunity to a disease by inoculation of an attenuated form of the virus causing the…
- Ambient Surrounding, present on all sides; encompassing. As, the ambient noise is deafening, or the ambient light is…
- Acute renal failure Sudden and often temporary loss of kidney function. Also called acute kidney failure. As opposed to chronic…