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- AIDS [r]: A collection of symptoms and signs caused when an infection with the Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) changes from simple presence to active disease. [e]
- Acute radiation syndrome [r]: Disease or death caused by whole-body irradiation, over a short period of time, with a significant quantity of penetrating radiation [e]
- Aminoglycoside [r]: Antibiotics class that contain an amino sugar and amino- or guanido-substituted inositol rings attached to hexose. [e]
- Asperger's syndrome [r]: A pervasive developmental condition related to autism. [e]
- Breast cancer [r]: Cancer of the glandular breast tissue. [e]
- Central nervous system [r]: The main information-processing organs of the nervous system, consisting of the brain, spinal cord, and meninges. National Library of Medicine [e]
- Child-Pugh Score [r]: Tool that correlates closely to morbidity and mortality in patients with liver disease. [e]
- Cochrane Collaboration [r]: Group of volunteers who review the effects of health care interventions tested in biomedical randomized controlled trials. [e]
- Decerebrate rigidity [r]: Extensor reflexes are exaggerated leading to rigid extension of the limbs (National Library of Medicine). [e]
- Decorticate rigidity [r]: Flexion of the elbows and wrists with extension of the legs and feet (National Library of Medicine). [e]
- Digital object identifier [r]: Unique label for a computer readable object that can be found on the internet, usually used in academic journals. [e]
- Encephalitis [r]: Inflammation of the brain due to infection, autoimmune processes, toxins, and other conditions. [e]
- Etiology [r]: Study of causation, or origination, usually applied in medicine to the causes of disease. [e]
- Genetics [r]: The study of the inheritance of characteristics, genes and DNA. [e]
- Hepatic encephalopathy [r]: Medical syndrome characterized by central nervous system dysfunction associated with liver failure. [e]
- Homeopathy [r]: System of medicine or alternative medicine that asserts that substances known to cause specific syndromes of symptoms can also, in very low and specially prepared doses, help to cure people who are ill with a similar syndrome of symptoms. [e]
- Infant colic [r]: A medical term for persistent and inconsolable crying by healthy infants, who are usually between the ages of two and sixteen weeks. [e]
- Infection [r]: Invasion and multiplication of microorganisms in body tissues, especially that causing local cellular injury due to competitive metabolism, toxins, intracellular replication or antigen–antibody response. [e]
- Korsakoff's syndrome [r]: Neurological disorder marked by severe memory loss, resulting from chronic alcoholism, head injury, brain illness, or thiamin deficiency. [e]
- Metabolic syndrome [r]: Clustering of medical conditions associated with abdominal obesity, hypertriglyceridemia, low level of high-density lipoproteins, hypertension, and high fasting glucose level. [e]
- SARS [r]: Contagious viral pneumonia possibly caused by a strain from the Coronavirus family of viruses, that can progress to fatal respiratory failure and is often characterized by high fever, malaise, dry cough, and shortness of breath. [e]
- Symptom [r]: A subjective description of an abnormal state, recounted by a patient, which is informative, but different from the objective result of a sign. [e]
