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- Tenosynovitis, De Quervain's 1) The pressure within a vessel, such as blood pressure: the pressure within the blood vessels. For example…
- Acute radiation syndrome An acute illness caused by a dose greater than 50 rads of penetrating radiation to most or all of the body in…
- Arthroscope A thin flexible fiberoptic scope which is introduced into a joint space through a small incision in order to…
- Arboviral encephalitis Inflammation of the brain (encephalitis) caused by infection with an arbovirus, a virus transmitted by a…
- Anomalad, Klippel-Feil See: Klippel-Feil sequence
- Coronal A coronal plane through the body is a vertical plane from head to foot and parallel to the shoulders
- Colpo- A group of diagnostic and therapeutic disciplines that are used together with conventional medicine. An…
- Gastroentenologist A common misspelling of gastroenterologist
- Hex-A deficiency See: Tay-Sachs disease
- Colitis, Crohn's Crohn's disease affecting only the large intestine (colon). Crohn's disease is a chronic inflammatory…
- Ptosis Downward displacement. Ptosis of the eyelids is drooping of the eyelids.