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Viral hemorrhagic fever
Viral hepatitis is liver inflammation caused by viruses. Specific hepatitis viruses have been labeled A, B, C, D, E, F, and G. While other viruses can also cause hepatitis, their primary target is not the liver.
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- Extracolonic Outside the colon. An hereditary colon cancer syndrome may also predispose to extracolonic malignancies
- Osteoarthropathy Any disease of the bones and joints. From osteo-, bone + -arthro-, joint, + pathy, disease
- Red jungle fowl genome The genome of Gallus gallus, the ancestor of domestic chickens. See: Chicken genome
- Public health >The assessment and monitoring of the health of communities and populations at risk to identify health…
- Stockholm syndrome Sudden collapse into unconsciousness due to a disorder of heart rhythm in which there is a slow or absent…
- Autoimmune polyglandular syndrome (APS) A genetic autoimmune disease with an extraordinary array of clinical features but characterized most often by…
- Enanthem A rash inside the body. An example: the spots in measles (Koplik's spots) inside the mouth that look like a…
- Antidepressant, MAOI Monoamine oxidase inhibitor (MAOI), one of a potent class of medications used to treat depression
- Syndrome, Asperger See: Asperger syndrome
- Hypocalcemia Lower-than-normal blood calcium. Low blood calcium makes the nervous system highly irritable with tetany…