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1) Excessive amounts of fats in the feces, as in malabsorption syndromes.
2) A condition that is characterized by chronic fatty diarrhea, a result of abnormal digestion and/or intestinal absorption of fats.
Industry:Health care
1) Excessive development of the male mammary glands, even to the functional state. (Dorland, 27th ed)
2) Excessive development of the breast in the male.
Industry:Health care
1) Excessive functional activity of the thyroid gland.
2) Too much thyroid hormone. Symptoms include weight loss, chest pain, cramps, diarrhea, and nervousness. Also called overactive thyroid.
Industry:Health care
1) Excessive rapidity in the action of the heart, usually with a heart rate above 100 beats per minute.
2) Relatively rapid heart action whether physiological (as after exercise) or pathological.
Industry:Health care
1) Excessive slowness in the action of the heart, usually with a heart rate below 60 beats per minute.
2) An abnormally slow heartbeat; as applied in adult medicine, it is defined as a heart rate of under 60 beats per minute. (from Wikipedia)
Industry:Health care
1) Excretion in semisolid state processed by the intestine.
2) The material discharged from the bowel during defecation. It consists of undigested food, intestinal mucus, epithelial cells, and bacteria.
3) The waste matter discharged in a bowel movement.
Industry:Health care
1) Exhibiting excessive tone or tension (a hypertonic baby, a hypertonic bladder).
2) Having a higher osmotic pressure than a surrounding medium or a fluid under comparison (animals that produce urine which is hypertonic to their blood).
Industry:Health care
1) Experimental treatment of a genetic disorder by replacing, supplementing, or manipulating the expression of abnormal genes with normally functioning genes.
2) An experimental procedure aimed at replacing, manipulating, or supplementing nonfunctional or misfunctioning genes with healthy genes.
3) The insertion of usually genetically altered genes into cells especially to replace defective genes in the treatment of genetic disorders or to provide a specialized disease-fighting function (as the destruction of tumor cells).
4) Gene therapy is an experimental technique for treating disease by altering the patient's genetic material. Most often, gene therapy works by introducing a healthy copy of a defective gene into the patient's cells.
Industry:Health care
1) Extensions of the nerve cell body. They are short and branched and receive stimuli from other neurons.
2) A branching protoplasmic process of a neuron that receive and integrate signals coming from axons of other neurons, and convey the resulting signal to the body of the cell.
Industry:Health care
1) Failure of testes to descend into scrotum.
2) A developmental defect characterized by failure of the testes to descend into the scrotum.
Industry:Health care
