folliculitis
The giveaway is the pattern: every bump sits on a hair, which separates it from skin infections that spread without regard to follicles.
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340 matchesfracture
A break and a fracture are the same event, and the choice of word reflects vocabulary rather than how serious the injury is.
Read definitionfreeze-dried
Freeze-dried describes a substance preserved by freezing it and then removing its moisture through vacuum drying.
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The air space behind the eyebrows that nobody is born with, and the one whose shape is distinctive enough to identify a person.
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Closer relatives of animals than of plants, and wrapped in a cell wall humans have no equivalent of, which is what antifungal drugs exploit.
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Ganglion describes both a cluster of nerve cell bodies outside the brain and spinal cord and an unrelated fluid filled cyst near a joint.
Read definitiongastroenteritis
Inflammation of the lining of the stomach and the intestines.
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A genome is the full set of DNA instructions an organism carries, including genes and the sequences that regulate them.
Read definitionginger
Ginger is a flavorful root long used in cooking and traditional preparations intended to ease nausea and digestive discomfort.
Read definitionglioma
A glioma is a tumor arising from glial cells that support the nervous system, ranging from slow growing to highly aggressive.
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Granulocytes are white blood cells containing microscopic granules of enzymes, including neutrophils, eosinophils, and basophils, each specialized for a different immune role.
Read definitiongrief therapy
Treatment that helps a person work through a greater than normal reaction to a loss, such as the death of a loved one.
Read definitionheart attack
The muscle of the heart starves while the person is usually awake and talking, which is what separates it from a cardiac arrest.
Read definitionhemagglutinin-neuraminidase
A protein found in the outer coat of paramyxoviruses.
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In heavy bleeding it is the flooding of the airways, not the volume of blood lost, that does the damage.
Read definitionhepatitis delta virus
First noticed as a puzzling new marker in liver cells of people with hepatitis B, later shown to be a separate virus.
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Herbal describes products or remedies derived from plants, which can carry measurable pharmacologic effects and interactions despite a natural origin.
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Families share more than genes, and separating the inherited from the merely shared is the harder half of reading a family history.
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A phrase that runs three separate ideas together, total amount, delivery speed and number of sessions, which is how its abbreviation misleads.
Read definitionhives
Welts that move: individual patches fade within a day while new ones rise elsewhere, which is what separates them from most other rashes.
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