Medical Dictionary Definitions A-Z List
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CHF
CHF: Congestive heart failure....
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Chicken genome
Chicken genome: The genome of the Red Jungle Fowl, Gallus gallus, the ancestor of domestic chickens, comprising about 1 billion DNA base pairs.
The Gallus gallus genome was the first avian genome to be sequenced.
A team led by Richard Wilson from the Washington University School of Medicine in St. ...
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Chicken pox
Chicken pox: See: Chickenpox....
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Chicken soup
Chicken soup: Long known as Jewish penicillin. See: Jewish penicillin....
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Chickenpox
Chickenpox: A highly infectious viral disease also known medically as varicella -- in many countries, this disease is always called "varicella" -- that causes a blister-like rash, itching, fatigue and fever. The rash crops up first on the face and trunk and can spread over the entire body resulting ...
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Chickenpox immunization
Chickenpox immunization: Immunization designed to prevent or lessen the severity of the common disease known as chickenpox. The vaccination currently involves only one shot, given at about one year of age. If an older person has not had chickenpox, the shot may be given at any time. There have been ...
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Chickenpox rash
Chickenpox rash: Chickenpox is characterized by a rash, often the first sign of the disease. The rash of chickenpox develops in crops with raised red spots arriving first, progressing to blisters that burst, creating open sores, before crusting over. This process usually starts on the scalp, then th...
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Chickenpox vaccination
Chickenpox vaccination: See Chickenpox immunization....
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Chiggers
Chiggers: The larvae of one type of mites, of the family
Trombiculidae. The larvae, or juvenile forms, feed on vertebrates such as
humans, while the adult mites feed on soil. Chigger bites produce a red welt
accompanied by an intense and unrelenting itch. Chiggers are so tiny that they
can barel...
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Chikungunya
Chikungunya: An urban disease resembling dengue fever, seen mainly in Africa, the Indian subcontinent, and Southeast Asia, caused by an arbovirus transmitted by Aedes mosquitoes. The most prominent frequent feature is severe arthritis. Chikungunya fever was first described in epidemic form in East ...
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Chilblain
Chilblain: A cold injury which, while painful, causes little or no permanent impairment. It appears as red, swollen skin which is tender, hot to the touch, and may itch. This can worsen to an aching, prickly ("pins and needles") sensation, and then numbness. It can develop in only a few hours in ski...
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Child abuse
Child abuse: Child abuse is a very complex and dangerous
set of problems that include child neglect and the physical,
emotional, and sexual abuse of children.
Although most people think first of physical abuse when they hear the
term, physical abuse makes us 25 percent of reported cases. It is
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Child abuse, emotional
Child abuse, emotional: Emotional child abuse is the third
most frequently reported form of child abuse (after child neglect and
physical child abuse), accounting 17% of all cases of child abuse.
It is likely that emotional child abuse is greatly underreported,
since it can be difficult to detec...
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Child abuse, physical
Child abuse, physical: Next to child neglect, physical
abuse is the second most frequently reported form of child abuse,
accounting for 25% of all cases of child abuse.
Physical child abuse is physical injury inflicted upon the child
with cruel and/or malicious intent. Physical abuse can be th...
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Child abuse, psychological
Child abuse, psychological: Also known as emotional child
abuse, this is the third most frequently reported form of child abuse
(after child neglect and physical child abuse), accounting 17% of all
cases of child abuse.
It is likely that emotional child abuse is greatly underreported,
since it ...
