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Medicine

The science and art of healing that employs a variety of health care practices to maintain and restore health by the prevention and treatment of illness.

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Activating transcription factor 2

Medical; Medicine

An activating transcription factor that regulates expression of a variety of genes including C-jun genes; cyclin A; cyclin D1; and activating Transcription Factor 3.

Acute disseminated encephalomyelitides

An acute or subacute inflammatory process of the central nervous system characterised histologically by multiple foci of perivascular demyelination. Symptom onset usually occurs several days after an ...

Acute autoimmune neuropathies

Medical; Medicine

An acute inflammatory autoimmune neuritis caused by T cell- mediated cellular immune response directed towards peripheral myelin. Demyelination occurs in peripheral nerves and nerve roots. The ...

Acute chest syndrome

Medical; Medicine

Respiratory syndrome characterised by the appearance of a new pulmonary infiltrate on chest x-ray, accompanied by symptoms of fever, cough, chest pain, tachypnea, or dyspnea, often seen in patients ...

Acute basophilic leukaemia

Medical; Medicine

A rare acute myeloid leukaemia in which the primary differentiation is to basophils. It is characterised by an extreme increase of immature basophilic granulated cells in the bone marrow and blood. ...

Basophilic acute leukaemia

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Acute cholecystitis

Medical; Medicine

Acute inflammation of the gallbladder wall. It is characterised by the presence of abdominal pain; fever; and leukocytosis. Gallstone obstruction of the cystic duct is present in approximately 90% of ...