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- ... that nutrientsback into the bloodstream?
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- ... that compulsive lyingby a person with no obvious motivation?
- ... that a epidermis?
- ... that an closed-angle glaucoma and iris melanoma?
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- ... that the most common cause of coronary artery?
- ... that the polymeal is a diet-based approach to combating heart disease, proposed in December 2004 by Oscar Franco?
- ... that a local anaesthetic?
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- ... that lagophthalmos is the inability to close the eyelids?
- ... that Beck's triad of arterial hypotension, raised jugular venous pressure and muffled heart sounds is pathognomonic of cardiac tamponade?
- ... that dark chocolate contains the highest antioxidant content of any food? It contains phosphorus, magnesium, iron and potassium. In addition, dark chocolate can lower blood pressure.
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- ... vinca alkaloids are chemotherapy drugs that inhibit the polymerization of tubulin, whereas taxanes are produced by plants of the genus Taxus that inhibit tubulin depolymerization?
- ... that Sydenham's chorea (or St. Vitus' dance) is one of the major criteria in the Jones diagnostic criteria for rheumatic fever?
- ... that rare mistargetting of somatic hypermutation is being investigated as a mechanism in the development of B-cell lymphomas?
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- ...that Erdheim–Chester disease or polyostotic sclerosing histiocytosis is a rare form of non-Langerhans-cell histiocytosis that may present with, among other things, bone pain, retroperitoneal fibrosis, diabetes insipidus and exophthalmos?
- ...that over time, essentially every vasectomized man experiences an epididymal blowout, which is the formation of a sperm granuloma in the epididymis, to relieve the high intra-luminal pressures in the delicate epididymal tubules?
- ...that the screening tests which allow differentiation between conductive hearing loss and sensorineural hearing loss?
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- ...that in March 2005, a government clinic for People's Republic of China?
- ...that genitalia, and is transmitted from animal to animal during copulation?
- ...that orthopedic surgeon?
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- ...the organ homogenates, but found they all displayed an acute stress reaction.
- ...the keratolytic effects of over-the-counter salicylic acid are used to treat viral warts?
- ...in vitamins and suggests that a lack of vitamins causes scurvy and rickets? He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1929, and also discovered the amino acid tryptophan in 1901.
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- ...Peyer's patches are an example of gut-associated lymphoid tissue?
- ...the brain itself is not sensitive to pain, because it lacks pain-sensitive nerve fibers? Several areas of the head can hurt, including a network of nerves which extends over the scalp and certain nerves in the face, mouth, and throat.
- ...that infectiousillness, and that this "Post infectious IBS" (IBS-PI) is drawing much clinical investigation?
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- ...infantile bilious vomiting.
- ...the disorder in which a person holds a delusionalbelief that he is dead, does not exist, is putrefying or has lost his blood or internal organs?
- ...the International Nonproprietary Names and the United States Adopted Names. In general, suffixes are used to identify a class of medicines; all monoclonal antibody pharmaceuticals end with the suffix -mab. However, different infixesare used depending on the structure and function of the medicine.
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- ...that the 47,XXY karyotype produces Klinefelter's syndrome, while 45,X causes Turner syndrome?
- ...that during the "Age of diaphoretics) and blistering? These medical treatments were well-intentioned, and often well-accepted by the medical community, but were actually harmful to the patient.
- ...teratogenic, causing amelia and phocomelia. However, it is still used for other indications such as for leprosy and multiple myeloma, with close regulation through the System for Thalidomide Education and Prescribing Safety (STEPS) program.
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- ...Developing countries, where it saves millions of children from diarrhea— the second leading cause of death (after pneumonia) in children under five. According to The Lancet(1978), ORT is "potentially the most important medical discovery of the 20th century".
- ...ATRA?
- ...the term "Beriberi" on the other hand, originates from the Sinhala(Sri Lankan) language meaning "I cannot, I cannot".
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- ...carcinogens. These chemicals alter DNA to induce mutations and then apoptosis. While this is a common property in chemicals that cause cancer it is also a property in drugs that fight cancer; these drugs alter the DNA of cancerous cells leading to mutations in cancer cells and eventual cell death.
- ...erythema infectiosum is the fifth disease of childhood, also known as slapped cheek syndrome, slap face or slapped face? It's caused by parvovirus B19, and usually follows a mild course.
- ...chicken pox or the common cold. The potentially increased risk of contracting Reye's syndrome is one of the main reasons that aspirin is not recommended for use in people under the age of 16.
- ...systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE or lupus) is a chronic, potentially debilitating or fatal autoimmune disease in which the immune systemattacks the body’s cells and tissue, resulting in inflammation and tissue damage?
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- ...the symptoms of Alzheimer's disease as a distinct entity were first identified by Emil Kraepelin, and the characteristic neuropathology was first observed by Alois Alzheimer, a German psychiatrist, in 1906? In this sense, the disease was co-discovered by Kraepelin and Alzheimer, who worked in Kraepelin's laboratory. Because of the overwhelming importance Kraepelin attached to finding the neuropathological basis of psychiatric disorders, Kraepelin made the generous decision that the disease would bear Alzheimer's name.
- ...bariatrics is the branch of medicine that deals with the causes, prevention, and treatment of obesity?
- In 2006, according to the diabetes?
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- The therapeutic index of a medication is a comparison of the amount that causes the therapeutic effect to the amount that causes toxic effects. Quantitatively, it is the ratio of the dose required to produce the desired therapeutic effect and the toxic dose. A commonly used measure of therapeutic index is the effective dose of a drug for 50% of the population (ED50) divided by the lethal dose for 50% of the population (LD50).
- ...that a Henoch-Schönlein purpura?
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- ... that in Prehistoric medicine, a hole was cut into the skull to release evil spirits (Trepanning) and that there is evidence that many people survived the operation?
- ...turbinate tissue, e.g. because of severe chronic congestion, and may severely impact quality of life?
- ...baldness treatment?
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- ... that kidney function?
- ... that chemotherapy regimens for colorectal cancer?
- ... that palivizumab is a humanised monoclonal antibody against respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) used in the prevention of bronchiolitis in high-risk infants?
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- ... that a chest trauma?
- ... that a CT scans?
- ... that lovastatin, a statin derived from the fungus Aspergillus terreus, is naturally present in red yeast rice?
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- ... that Raynaud's phenomenon, or vasospasm causing discolouration of the extremities (pictured), can be the presenting symptom in conditions like scleroderma?
- ... that diabetes who exhibit high blood glucose levels during pregnancy?
- ... that the membrane surrounding the lung?
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- ... that , respectively?
- ... in many developing countries indoor air pollution from cooking fire smoke (often using biomass fuels such as wood and animal dung) is a common cause of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, especially in women?
- ... that pain in the right iliac fossa during deep palpation in the left iliac fossa is called Rovsing's sign, a test for appendicitis?
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- ... that one third of the world's current population has tuberculosis (see map shown on the right), and new infections occur at a rate of one per second?
- ... that shortness of breath that is worse when sitting up is called platypnea, which is a sign of hepatopulmonary syndrome?
- ... that diabetes mellitus type 2, sleep apnea, certain types of cancer, and osteoarthritis, and shortens life expectancy?
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- ... that the tears of the meniscus(pictured)?
- ... that paraneoplastic liver dysfunction due to renal cell carcinoma?
- ... that familial cold urticaria and periodic fever, aphthous stomatitis, pharyngitis and adenitis, among others?