Acronyms
MGUS – Acronym
MGUS stands for: Monoclonal Gammopathy of Undetermined Significance
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Acronyms
TRALI – Acronym
TRALI stands for: Transfusion Related Acute Lung Injury
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Medicine
Conditions causing increased sweat chloride
Cystic fibrosis is the most important condition in which chloride levels in sweat are increased It is measured by using sweat test There are some other conditions which
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Medicine
Drugs causing peripheral neuropathy as side effect
The following drugs are known to cause peripheral neuropathy as their side effect. Anti cancer drugs vincristine cisplatin Anti epileptics Phenytoin Cardiac drugs Hydralazine Amiodarone Perhexiline Antibiotics Nitrofurantoin Isoniazid Metronidazole
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Medicine
Siegert's sign
Siegert’s sign refert to short and inward curved terminal phalanges seen in Down syndrome Named after Ferdinand Siegert, a German paediatrician
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Neurology
Sunderland Classification of Nerve Injury
Sunderland Classification of Nerve Injury has 5 degrees: Axoplasmic flow obstruction (neurapraxia) Axon destroyed (axonotmesis) Endoneurium destroyed (neurotmesis)) Perineurium destroyed Epineurium destroyed (complete transection with loss of continuity)
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Acronyms
ICS – Acronym
ICS stands for: Inhaled Corticosteroids
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Acronyms
CSF – Acronym
CSF stands for: Cerebrospinal fluid
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Medicine
OAVS – Acronym
OAVS stands for: Oculo Auriculo Vertebral Spectrum (a type of craniofacial anomaly)
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