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Prostate cancer is a form of cancer that develops in the prostate a gland in the male reproductive system. Most prostate cancers are slow growing; however there are cases of […]

Myopia (Ancient Greek: μυωπία muōpia from myein to shut – ops (gen.

Paranoid schizophrenia also called schizophrenia paranoid type is a sub-type of schizophrenia as defined in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders DSM-IV code 295.30. It is the most […]

Alpers’ disease also called Alpers’ syndrome progressive sclerosing poliodystrophy and progressive infantile poliodystrophy is a progressive degenerative disease of the central nervous system that occurs mostly in infants and children. […]

Nose-picking is the act of extracting nasal mucus with one’s finger (rhinotillexis) and may include the succeeding action of ingesting the mucus from the nose-picking (mucophagy). Some scientists argue that […]

Execution by firing squad sometimes called fusillading (from the French fusil rifle) is a method of capital punishment particularly common in the military and in times of war. Execution by […]

Arsenic poisoning is a medical condition caused by elevated levels of arsenic in the body. The dominant basis of arsenic poisoning is from ground water that naturally contains high concentrations […]

Atherosclerosis (also known as arteriosclerotic vascular disease or ASVD) is a specific form of arteriosclerosis in which an artery wall thickens as a result of the accumulation of calcium and […]

Ketosis /kɨˈtoʊsɨs/ is a state of elevated levels of ketone bodies in the body. It is almost always generalized throughout the body with hyperketonemia that is an elevated level of […]

Trichinosis also called trichinellosis or trichiniasis is a parasitic disease caused by eating raw or undercooked pork or wild game infected with the larvae of a species of roundworm Trichinella […]