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Low vision
A visual impairment, not corrected by standard glasses, contact lenses, medicine, or surgery, that interferes with the ability to perform everyday activities. Most people develop low vision because of eye diseases such as cataracts…
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Show more- Clinical Research Center (CRC) A key resource for clinical research. Also called a General Clinical Research Center (GCRC). One in a…
- Papuliferous 1. Having papules. 2. Having pimples. Simply pimply. From papule, pimple + the Latin fero, to bear. Also…
- Blindness Loss of useful sight. Blindness can be temporary or permanent. Damage to any portion of the eye, the optic…
- Whipple disease A form of intestinal malabsorption (an inability to absorb nutrients from the intestine) described in 1907 by…
- Noncompliance The failure or refusal to comply: the failure or refusal to conform and adapt one's actions to a rule or to…
- Legal medicine The branch of medicine that deals with the application of medical knowledge to legal problems and legal…
- Ear, cauliflower An acquired deformity of the external ear to which wrestlers and boxers are particularly vulnerable. The…
- Apnea An apnea is a period of time during which breathing stops or is markedly reduced. There are two types of…
- Sternutation Sneezing; the sound of sneezing. When we sneeze, air is expelled with force from the nose (and from the…
- Headache, tension A headache caused by contracting of the muscles in the back of the neck, on the scalp, and sometimes in the…
- Fibrosis, radiation Scarring of the lungs from radiation. Radiation fibrosis is a sequel of radiation pneumonitis (inflammation…
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