Katayama disease
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Katayama syndrome — n SCHISTOSOMIASIS JAPONICA specif an acute form usu. occurring several weeks after initial infection with the causative schistosome (Schistosoma japonicum) called also Katayama disease, Katayama fever … Medical dictionary
Disease — Illness or sickness often characterized by typical patient problems (symptoms) and physical findings (signs). Disruption sequence: The events that occur when a fetus that is developing normally is subjected to a destructive agent such as the… … Medical dictionary
Katayama fever (disease) — Ka·ta·ya·ma fever (disease) (kah tah yahґmah) [Katayama River Valley, Japan, where it was first reported in the 19th century] see under fever … Medical dictionary
Fever — Although a fever technically is any body temperature above the normal of 98.6 degrees F. (37 degrees C.), in practice a person is usually not considered to have a significant fever until the temperature is above 100.4 degrees F (38 degrees C.).… … Medical dictionary
Long non-coding RNA — Long noncoding RNAs (long ncRNAs) are generally considered (somewhat arbitrarily) as non protein coding transcripts longer than 200 nucleotides. This limit is due to practical considerations including the separation of RNAs in common experimental … Wikipedia
Schistosoma mansoni — Taxobox name = Schistosoma mansoni image width = 200px image caption = Schistosomes encopula regnum = Animalia phylum = Platyhelminthes classis = Trematoda subclassis = Digenea ordo = Strigeidida genus = Schistosoma species = S. mansoni binomial … Wikipedia
syndrome — The aggregate of symptoms and signs associated with any morbid process, and constituting together the picture of the disease. SEE ALSO: disease. [G. s., a running together, tumultuous concourse; (in med.) a concurrence of symptoms, fr. syn,… … Medical dictionary
test — 1. To prove; to try a substance; to determine the chemical nature of a substance by means of reagents. 2. A method of examination, as to determine the presence or absence of a definite disease or of some substance in any of the fluids, tissues,… … Medical dictionary
Schistosomiasis — Classification and external resources Skin vesicles on the forearm, created by the penetration of Schistosoma. Source: CDC ICD 10 B … Wikipedia
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