Reactive hypoglycemia or postprandial hypoglycemia is a medical term describing recurrent episodes of symptomatic hypoglycemia occurring within 4 hours after a high carbohydrate meal (or oral glucose load) in people […]
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Congenital anomalies of the genitalia
Congenital anomaly of the genitalia is a medical term referring to any physical abnormality of the male or female internal or external genitalia present at birth. This is a broad […]
Right bundle branch block
A right bundle branch block (RBBB) is a defect in the heart’s electrical conduction system.During a right bundle branch block the right ventricle is not directly activated by impulses travelling […]
Pseudarthrosis
Pseudarthrosis (or nonunions) is a fracture that has not united in the stipulated time in which such fractures usually unite and has no chance of union without intervention.There is movement […]
Uterine rupture
Uterine rupture is a potentially catastrophic event during childbirth by which the integrity of the myometrial wall is breached. In an incomplete rupture the peritoneum is still intact. With a […]
Sclerodactyly
Sclerodactyly is a localized thickening and tightness of the skin of the fingers or toes.
Obstetrical hemorrhage
Obstetrical hemorrhage refers to heavy bleeding during pregnancy labor or the puerperium. Bleeding may be vaginal and external or less commonly but more dangerously internal into the abdominal cavity. Typically […]
Eumycetoma
Mycetoma redirects here. For the bacterial disease formerly known as actinomycetoma see Actinomycosis.Eumycetoma is a chronic granulomatous fungal disease of humans affecting mainly the limbs and sometimes the abdominal and […]
Debility (medical)
In general debility refers to a loss of strength. In medicine debility refers to being weak or feeble.
Smith’s fracture
A Smith’s fracture also sometimes known as a reverse Colles’ fracture is a fracture of the distal radius. It is caused by a direct blow to the dorsal forearm or […]