6 Terms
Contributors in Diseases
Diseases
Insomnia
Health care; Diseases
The perception or complaint of inadequate or poor-quality sleep because of one or more of the following: difficulty falling asleep; waking up frequently during the night with difficulty returning to ...
Acid reflux
Health care; Diseases
A common condition and an abnormal one in which acid in the stomach rises up into the esophagus. This occurs because the valve separating the contents of the stomach from the oesophagus does not ...
Acute
Health care; Diseases
Often connotes an illness that is of short duration, rapidly progressive, and in need of urgent care.
Angina
Health care; Diseases
Chest pain due to an inadequate supply of oxygen to the heart muscle. The chest pain of angina is typically severe and crushing. There is a feeling just behind the breastbone (the sternum) of ...
Transverse sinus venous thrombosis
Health care; Diseases
The symptom of a blood clot forming in the vein that is situated in the area between the brain and the skull behind the right ear. The transverse sinus is one of the major veins that drains the brain ...
Ossifying fibroma
Health care; Diseases
A benign, relatively slow-growing, central bone tumor, usually of the jaws (especially the mandible) which is composed of fibrous connective tissue within which bone is formed.
