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  • The British Red Cross Society (Welsh: Y Groes Goch Brydeinig) is the United Kingdom body of the worldwide neutral and impartial humanitarian network the...
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    Quadrantanopia, quadrantanopsia, refers to an anopia (loss of vision) affecting a quarter of the visual field. It can be associated with a lesion of an...
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    Alla Gopala Krishna Gokhale is an Indian cardiac surgeon at Apollo Hospitals. He is known for being the first to perform a successful human-to-human heart...
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  • Thumbnail for Gerstmann syndrome
    Gerstmann syndrome is a neuropsychological disorder that is characterized by a constellation of symptoms that suggests the presence of a lesion usually...
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  • Murder for body parts also known as medicine murder (not to be confused with "medical murder") refers to the killing of a human being in order to excise...
    31 KB (3,712 words) - 19:40, 23 December 2023
  • Thumbnail for Paramyotonia congenita
    Paramyotonia congenita (PC) is a rare congenital autosomal dominant neuromuscular disorder characterized by "paradoxical" myotonia. This type of myotonia...
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  • Thumbnail for Cephalohematoma
    A cephalohaematoma is a hemorrhage of blood between the skull and the periosteum at any age, including a newborn baby secondary to rupture of blood vessels...
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  • Thumbnail for Foville's syndrome
    Foville's syndrome is caused by the blockage of the perforating branches of the basilar artery in the region of the brainstem known as the pons. It is...
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  • Macropsia is a neurological condition affecting human visual perception, in which objects within an affected section of the visual field appear larger...
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  • Thumbnail for Fragile X-associated tremor/ataxia syndrome
    Fragile X-associated tremor/ataxia syndrome (FXTAS) is a late-onset neurodegenerative disorder most frequently seen in male premutation carriers of Fragile...
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  • Thumbnail for Karlis Osis
    Karlis Osis (26 December 1917 – 26 December 1997) was a Latvian-born parapsychologist who specialised in exploring deathbed phenomena and life after death...
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  • Thumbnail for Lumbar disc disease
    Lumbar disc disease is the drying out of the spongy interior matrix of an intervertebral disc in the spine. Many physicians and patients use the term lumbar...
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  • Thumbnail for Villitis of unknown etiology
    Villitis of unknown etiology (VUE), also known as chronic villitis, is a placental injury. VUE is an inflammatory condition involving the chorionic villi...
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  • The Children's Global Assessment Scale (CGAS) is a numeric scale used by mental health clinicians to rate the general functioning of youths under the age...
    6 KB (753 words) - 22:09, 11 September 2022
  • Viliuisk encephalomyelitis (VE) is a fatal progressive neurological disorder found only in the Sakha (Iakut/Yakut) population of central Siberia. About...
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  • In pregnancy, there is an increased susceptibility and/or severity of several infectious diseases. There are several potential risk factors or causes to...
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    Sir Anthony Herbert Everington OBE, known as Sam Everington, is a GP at a health centre within the Bromley by Bow Centre, in Tower Hamlets, an area of...
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  • A telomere (pl.; telomeres or telomeron), literally "end piece", is a term in insect morphology, and refers to a type of "genital clasper"; i.e.: in Mallophaga...
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