Related Terms Abrasions, anal fissure, autolytic debridement, bed sore, Clostridium sp., collagen, collagen matrix, cuts, debridement, decubitus ulcer, diabetic ulcers, electrotherapy, epithelial, epithelialization phase, extravasation, gangrene, gas gangrene, human growth factors, hydrocolloid, hyperbaric oxygen, incision wounds, incontinence, infected surgical wounds, infectious arthritis, inflammatory phase, injuries,… Read More »Wound healing
Related Terms Abnormal menstrual bleeding, Alzheimer’s disease, amenorrhea, anti-androgen, anti-estrogen, atrophic vaginitis, bacterial vaginosis, breast cancer-related hot flashes, calcium, Candida, cervicitis, cervix, chronic pelvic pain, contraceptive, corpus luteum deficiency, cramps, cytokines, dysmenorrheal, ectopic pregnancy, emmenagogue, endometriosis, estrogen, fibrocystic breast disease, follicle-stimulating hormone, FSH, GABA, gardnerella,… Read More »Women’s health
Related Terms Alanine aminotransferase, alcoholic steatohepatitis, alkaline phosphatase, ALP, ALT, antioxidant, aspartate aminotransferase, AST, autosomal recessive trait, bile, bilirubin, ceruloplasmin, cirrhosis, computerized tomography, copper, CT, depression, dysarthria, dysphagia, fatty liver, fibrosis, fulminant liver failure, hepatitis, hepatitis vaccine, jaundice, Kayser-Fleisher ring, liver, liver biopsy, liver transplant,… Read More »Wilson’s disease
Related Terms Asphyxiation, B. pertussis, Bordetella pertussis contagious, cough, dehydration, dipthteria, encephalitis, hemorrhage, hernia, incubation, inflammation, intravenous, IV, otitis media, pertussis, tetanus, upper respiratory infection, vaccination, vaccine. Background Whooping cough, also called pertussis, is a highly contagious bacterial infection of the respiratory system that causes… Read More »Whooping cough
Related Terms ADHD, attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, autosomal dominant disorder, autosomal dominant trait, Beuren syndrome, chromosomal deletion, chromosome 7, CLIP2 gene, early hypercalcemia syndrome, elastin, elfin facies syndrome, elfin facies with hypercalcemia, ELN gene, FISH, fluorescent in situ hybridization, general transcription factor II I gene,… Read More »Williams syndrome
Related Terms Arthropod, brain infection, chimera, dengue, Flavivirus, genome, Japanese encephalitis, JE, mosquitoes, protease inhibitors, reverse transcriptase inhibitors, St. Louis encephalitis, TBE, Tick-Born encephalitis, ticks. Background Encephalitis literally means brain infection. Strictly speaking, “-itis” means inflammation, which includes redness, swelling, pain, and warmth, and can… Read More »Viral encephalitis
Related Terms Albinism, cochlear implants, congenital hearing loss, gray hair, hearing loss, Hirschsprung disease, Hirschsprung’s disease, inherited disorders, Klein-Waardenburg syndrome, Waardenburg-Shah syndrome, white forelock. Background Waardenburg syndrome (WS) is an inherited disorder that causes varying degrees of hearing loss and color changes in the skin,… Read More »Waardenburg syndrome
Related Terms Acute viral nasopharyngitis, antibody, antibody test, antiretrovirals, antiviral, antivirals, common cold, Epstein-Barr virus, flu, flu shot, flu vaccine, HAART, hepatitis, hepatitis A, hepatitis B, highly active antiretroviral therapy, HIV, human immunodeficiency virus, immunomodulators, infection, influenza, immunization, interferons, measles, MMR, molluscum contagiosum, mumps, uncoating,… Read More »Viruses
Related Terms Arenavirus, Argentine hemorrhagic, Bolivian hemorrhagic fever, Brazilian hemorrhagic fever, bunyavirus, filovirus, flavivirus, GTOV, guanarito virus, junin virus, JUNV, lassa virus, LASV, LMCV, lymphocytic choriomeningitis virus, machupo virus, MACV, mosquitoes, rats, sabia virus, SABV, ticks, Venezuelan hemorrhagic fever, VHF. Background Viral hemorrhagic fever (VHF)… Read More »Viral hemorrhagic fever (VHF)
