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- ... that Fanconi Syndrome is a ataxia in which the proximal tubular action of the kidney is impaired, consistent in decreased reabsorption of electrolytes and nutrients aback into the bloodstream?
- ... that the aboriginal vaccine for typhus was developed in 1937?
- ... that Cretinism is a action of acutely bantam concrete and brainy advance due to basic congenital absence of thyroid hormones?
- ... that mythomania is a action involving compulsive lying by a getting with no accessible motivation?
- ... that a jet injector is a blazon of medical injecting syringe that uses a high-pressure attenuated jet of the bang aqueous instead of a hypodermic aggravate to access the epidermis?
- ... that an iridectomy is the surgical abatement of allotment of the iris, a lot of frequently performed in the analysis of closed-angle glaucoma and iris melanoma?
- ... that the a lot of accepted could could could could could cause of acute coronary syndrome is disruption of atherosclerotic plaque in a coronary artery?
- ... that the polymeal is a diet-based access to active affection disease, proposed in December 2004 by Oscar Franco?
- ... that a mammotome is a accessory that uses a computer-guided delving to accomplish breast biopsies, and that it can be conducted on an outpatient base beneath local anaesthetic?
- ... that lagophthalmos is the disability to abutting the eyelids?
- ... that Beck's triad of arterial hypotension, aloft jugular venous pressure and deadened heart sounds is pathognomonic of cardiac tamponade?
- ... that aphotic chocolate contains the accomplished antioxidant agreeable of any food? It contains phosphorus, magnesium, adamant and potassium. In addition, aphotic amber can lower claret pressure.
- ... vinca alkaloids are chemotherapy drugs that arrest the polymerization of tubulin, admitting taxanes are produced by plants of the genus Taxus that arrest tubulin depolymerization?
- ... that Sydenham's chorea (or St. Vitus' dance) is a one of the aloft acceptance in the Jones analytic acceptance for rheumatic fever?
- ... that attenuate mistargetting of somatic hypermutation is getting advised as a apparatus in the development of B-cell lymphomas?
- ...that Erdheim-Chester disease or polyostotic sclerosing histiocytosis is a attenuate analysis of non-Langerhans-cell histiocytosis that may present with, a part of added things, bone pain, retroperitoneal fibrosis, diabetes insipidus and exophthalmos?
- ...that over time, about every vasectomized man adventures an epididymal blowout, which is the accumulation of a agent granuloma in the epididymis, to abate the top intra-luminal pressures in the aerial epididymal tubules?
- ...that the Rinne test and Weber test are quick screening tests which acquiesce differentiation amid conductive audition loss and sensorineural audition loss?
- ...that in March 2005, a government dispensary for Internet addiction was opened at the Beijing Military Region Central Hospital in People's Republic of China?
- ...that canine catching crabs tumor is a tumour of the dog and added canids that mainly affects the alien genitalia, and is transmitted from beastly to beastly during copulation?
- ...that Count Jacques Rogge, the admiral of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) is by profession an orthopedic surgeon?
- ...the general adjustment syndrome was apparent about accidentally by Hungarian endocrinologist Hans Selye? He was analytic for new hormones by injecting mice with organ homogenates, but begin they all displayed an acute accent reaction.
- ...the keratolytic furnishings of over-the-counter salicylic acid are acclimated to amusement viral warts?
- ...in 1906, Frederick Hopkins appropriate the actuality of vitamins and suggests that a abridgement of vitamins causes scurvy and rickets? He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1929, and aswell apparent the amino acid tryptophan in 1901.
- ...Peyer's patches are an archetype of gut-associated lymphoid tissue?
- ...the brain itself is not astute to pain, because it lacks pain-sensitive assumption fibers? Several areas of the arch can hurt, including a arrangement of fretfulness which extends over the attic and assertive fretfulness in the face, mouth, and throat.
- ...that irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) may sometimes accept an astute access and advance afterwards an infectious illness, and that this "Post communicable IBS" (IBS-PI) is cartoon abundant analytic investigation?
- ...anyone who falsely claims to be a biomedical scientist in the UK commits an answerability and could be fined up to £5000?
- ...Hyperkalemia (hyper is high, kalium is the Latin name for potassium) is an animated claret akin (above 5.0 mmol/L) of the electrolyte potassium? Extreme degrees of hyperkalemia are advised a medical emergency due to the accident of potentially baleful arrhythmias.
- ...infantile pyloric stenosis is a not aberrant pediatric action area there is a complete absorption of the pylorus (the aperture at the lower end of the stomach)? Babies with this action usually present aural the aboriginal few weeks (usually amid 2nd and 3rd) of activity with poor feeding, weight loss and progressively deepening vomiting arch ultimately to projectile non-bilious vomiting.
- ...the Cotard delusion (or Cotard's syndrome, le délire de négation) is a attenuate disorder in which a getting holds a delusional acceptance that he is dead, does not exist, is putrefying or has absent his claret or centralized organs?
- ...the nomenclature of monoclonal antibodies is a allotment arrangement for allotment generic, or nonproprietary, names to a accumulation of medicines alleged monoclonal antibodies. This arrangement is acclimated for both the World Health Organization’s International Nonproprietary Names and the United States Adopted Names. In general, suffixes are acclimated to analyze a chic of medicines; all monoclonal antibiotic pharmaceuticals end with the suffix -mab. However, altered infixes are acclimated depending on the anatomy and action of the medicine.
- ...that the 47,XXY karyotype produces Klinefelter's syndrome, while 45,X causes Turner syndrome?
- ...that during the "Age of Heroic Medicine" (1780-1850), accomplished able physicians aggressively accomplished "heroic medicine", including bloodletting (venesection), abdominal ablution (calomel), airsickness (tartar emetic), abounding afraid (diaphoretics) and blistering? These medical treatments were well-intentioned, and generally well-accepted by the medical community, but were in fact adverse to the patient.
- ...Thalidomide is a biologic that was awash during the backward 1950s and 1960s to abundant women as an antiemetic? It was after begin to be teratogenic, causing amelia and phocomelia. However, it is still acclimated for added break such as for leprosy and multiple myeloma, with abutting adjustment through the System for Thalidomide Education and Prescribing Safety (STEPS) program.
- ...Oral rehydration therapy (ORT) is a simple, cheap, and able analysis for diarrhea-related dehydration? It is acclimated about the world, but is a lot of important in the Developing countries, area it saves millions of accouchement from diarrhea—still their arch could could could could could cause of death. According to The Lancet (1978), ORT is "potentially the a lot of important medical analysis of the 20th century".
- ...Arsenic was acclimated even in the additional bisected of the 20th aeon for psoriasis, and was accustomed in 2000 by the FDA for the analysis of patients with acute promyelocytic leukemia that is aggressive to ATRA?
- ...the appellation "dengue" is a Spanish attack at the Swahili byword "ki denga pepo", acceptation "cramp- like access acquired by an angry spirit"? "Beriberi" on the added hand, originates from the Sinhalese (Sri Lankan) accent acceptation "I cannot, I cannot".
- ...erythema infectiosum is the fifth disease of childhood, aswell accepted as slapped audacity syndrome, bang face or slapped face? It's acquired by parvovirus B19, and usually follows a balmy course.
- ...Reye's syndrome is a potentially baleful ache that causes adverse furnishings mainly to the brain and liver? The could could could could could cause of Reye's affection charcoal unknown; however, a hotlink was begin with the use of aspirin or added salicylates in children and adolescents who accept a viral infection such as influenza, chicken pox or the common cold. The potentially added accident of application Reye's affection is one of the capital affidavit that aspirin is not recommended for use in humans beneath the age of 16.
- ...systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE or lupus) is a chronic, potentially debilitating or baleful autoimmune disease in which the immune system attacks the body’s beef and tissue, consistent in deepening and tissue damage?
- ...the affection of Alzheimer's disease as a audible article were aboriginal articular by Emil Kraepelin, and the appropriate neuropathology was aboriginal empiric by Alois Alzheimer, a German psychiatrist, in 1906? In this sense, the ache was co-discovered by Kraepelin and Alzheimer, who formed in Kraepelin's laboratory. Because of the cutting accent Kraepelin absorbed to award the neuropathological base of psychiatric disorders, Kraepelin fabricated the acceptable accommodation that the ache would buck Alzheimer's name.
- ...bariatrics is the annex of medicine that deals with the causes, prevention, and analysis of obesity?
- In 2006, according to the World Health Organization, at atomic 171 actor humans accepted ache from diabetes?
- Snoezelen or "controlled multisensory stimulation" ability be benign to humans with autism and added developmental disabilities, dementia, and brain injury?
- The therapeutic index of a medication is a allegory of the bulk that causes the ameliorative aftereffect to the bulk that causes baneful effects. Quantitatively, it is the arrangement of the dosage appropriate to aftermath the adapted ameliorative aftereffect and the baneful dose. A frequently acclimated admeasurement of ameliorative basis is the able dosage of a biologic for 50% of the citizenry (ED50) disconnected by the baleful dosage for 50% of the citizenry (LD50).
- ...that a toddler with a syndrome of rash (pictured), arthralgia/arthritis, abdominal pain and renal disease, preceded by a viral upper respiratory amplitude infection, is acceptable to accept Henoch-Schönlein purpura?
- ... that in Prehistoric medicine, a aperture was cut into the skull to absolution angry alcohol (Trepanning) and that there is affirmation that abounding humans survived the operation?
- ...Empty adenoids syndrome is acquired by balance surgical abatement of turbinate tissue, e.g. because of astringent abiding congestion, and may acutely appulse quality of life?
- ...hair transplantation is a surgical baldness treatment?
- ... that cystatin C (pictured) is a beastly protein mainly advised as a biomarker for kidney function?
- ... that FOLFOX and FOLFIRI are chemotherapy regimens for colorectal cancer?
- ... that palivizumab is a humanised monoclonal antibody adjoin respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) acclimated in the blockage of bronchiolitis in high-risk infants?
- ... that a pulmonary contusion (pictured) is a bruising of the lung that occurs as a aftereffect of chest trauma?
- ... that a solitary pulmonary nodule or bread bane is a mass in the lung abate than 3 centimetres in bore that can be an incidental finding begin in up to 0.2% of chest X-rays and about 1% of CT scans?
- ... that lovastatin, a statin acquired from the fungus Aspergillus terreus, is by itself present in red aggrandize rice?
- ... that Raynaud's phenomenon, or vasospasm causing discolouration of the extremities (pictured), can be the presenting evidence in altitude like scleroderma?
- ... that gestational diabetes occurs in women after ahead diagnosed diabetes who display top blood glucose levels during pregnancy?
- ... that catamenial pneumothorax is a action of collapsed lung occurring in affiliation with menstrual periods, believed to be acquired primarily by endometriosis of the the film surrounding the lung?
- ... that enfuvirtide and maraviroc are HIV entry inhibitors that collaborate with the viral gp41 and CCR5, respectively?
- ... in abounding developing countries calm air abuse from affable blaze smoke (often application biomass fuels such as copse and beastly dung) is a accepted could could could could could cause of chronic adverse pulmonary disease, abnormally in women?
- ... that affliction in the appropriate iliac fossa during abysmal palpation in the larboard iliac fossa is alleged Rovsing's sign, a analysis for appendicitis?