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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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Atf3 transcription factor

Medical; Medicine

An activating transcription factor that plays a key role in cellular responses to genotoxic stress and oxidative stress.

Acute febrile neutrophilic dermatosis

Condition characterised by large, rapidly extending, erythematous, tender plaques on the upper body usually accompanied by fever and dermal infiltration of neutrophilic leukocytes. It occurs mostly ...

Acute disseminated encephalomyelitis

Medical; Medicine

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 hemorrhagic conjunctivitides

Medical; Medicine

A highly contagious disease characterised by subconjunctival hemorrhage, sudden swelling of the eyelids and congestion, redness, and pain in the eye. Epidemic conjunctivitis caused by enterovirus 70 ...

Acute generalised exanthematous pustulosis

Medical; Medicine

A rare skin eruption that is characterised by acute, extensive formation of sterile pustules, fever, and peripheral blood leukocytosis.

Exanthematous acute generalised pustulosis

Medical; Medicine

A rare skin eruption that is characterised by acute, extensive formation of sterile pustules, fever, and peripheral blood leukocytosis.

Acute erythroblastic leukaemia

Medical; Medicine

A myeloproliferative disorder characterised by neoplastic proliferation of erythroblastic and myeloblastic elements with atypical erythroblasts and myeloblasts in the peripheral blood.