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  Brain damage

  Brain damage or brain injury is the destruction or degeneration of brain cells. Brain damage may occur due to a wide range of conditions, illnesses, or injuries. Possible causes of widespread ... > more
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  Genes
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  Allele

  An allele is a viable DNA (deoxyribonucleic acid) coding that occupies a given locus (position) on a chromosome. Usually alleles are sequences that code for a gene, but sometimes the term is used to ... > more
• Osteoporosis
  Bone and Spine
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  Bone age

  Bone age is a way of describing the degree of maturation of a child's bones. As a person grows from fetal life through childhood, puberty, and finishes growth as a young adult, the bones of the ... > more
• Autism
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  Child Development
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  Autistic spectrum

  The autistic spectrum (sometimes referred to as the autism spectrum) is a developmental and behavioral syndrome that results from certain combinations of characteristically autistic traits. Although ... > more
• Fertility
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  Infertility

  Infertility is the inability to naturally conceive a child or the inability to carry a pregnancy to term. There are many reasons why a couple may not be able to conceive, or may not be able to ... > more
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  Delayed puberty

  Puberty is described as delayed when a boy or girl has passed the usual age of onset of puberty with no physical or hormonal signs that it is beginning. Puberty may be delayed for several years and ... > more
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  Infant

  The word infant is commonly used as a slightly more formal word for baby (the youngest category of child). The term infant is also used as formal/legal term for minor; that is, a child in general. A ... > more
• Pregnancy and Childbirth
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  Infant's Health
   
  

  Fetus

  A fetus (also foetus) is a developing mammal after the embryonic stage and before birth. The plural is fetuses or foetuses. In humans, a fetus develops from the end of the 8th week of pregnancy (when ... > more
• Diabetes
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  Blood sugar

  In medicine, blood sugar is a term used to refer to levels of glucose in the blood. Blood sugar concentration, or serum glucose level, is tightly regulated in the human body. Glucose, transported via ... > more
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  Toxic shock syndrome

  Toxic shock syndrome (TSS) is a rare but potentially fatal disease caused by a bacterial toxin. Different bacterial toxins may cause toxic shock syndrome, depending on the situation. The causative ... > more

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