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Medical Dictionary Terms Beginning with K
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Kuru
Kuru: A slowly progressive fatal disease of the brain (a form of subacute spongiform encephalopathy) due to an infectious agent (a virus or subviral particle called a prion) transmitted among people in Papua New Guinea by ritual canabalism. The discovemore detail info...
Kussmaul breathing
Kussmaul breathing: Air hunger.more detail info...
Kwashiorkor
Kwashiorkor: The word kwashiorkor comes from the Ivory Coast. It means the deposed (no longer suckled) child. Kwashiorkor is a childhood disease due to protein deprivation. Early signs are vague: apathy (indifference), lethargy (drowsiness) and irritabmore detail info...
Kyphoscoliosis
Kyphoscoliosis: Combination of kyphosis and scoliosis (lateral curving of the spine). Part of good health maintenance is to check a child's back (from infancy through adolescence) to make sure the back looks normal and, if concerned, a doctor is consulmore detail info...
Kyphosis
Kyphosis: Humpback.more detail info...
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