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Familial adenomatous polyposis (FAP)
Familial adenomatous polyposis (FAP): Genetic disease with numerous precancerous polyps in the colon and rectum. Also called familial polyposis.more detail info...
Familial breast cancer
Familial breast cancer: A number of factors have been identified that increase the risk of breast cancer. One of the strongest of these risk factors is the history of breast cancer in a relative. About15-20% of women with breast cancer have such a famimore detail info...
Familial cancer
Familial cancer: Cancer or a predisposition (tendency) to it that runs in families.more detail info...
Familial hypercholesterolemia
Familial hypercholesterolemia: This is the most common inherited type of hyperlipidemia (high lipid levels in blood). It is recognizable in childhood. Familial hypercholesterolemia is due to genetic defects in the receptor (target) for LDL (low densitymore detail info...
Familial Mediterranean Fever (FMF)
Familial Mediterranean Fever (FMF): A inherited disorder of unknown cause featuring short recurring bouts of fever together with pain in the joints, chest or abdomen. Between attacks, the patient seems healthy (when FMF is more difficult to diagnose).more detail info...
Familial mental retardation 1
Familial mental retardation 1: See FMR1.more detail info...
Familial mental retardation protein
Familial mental retardation protein: See FMRP.more detail info...
Familial polyposis
Familial polyposis: An inherited condition in which several hundred polyps develop in the colon and rectum.more detail info...
FAO deficiency
FAO deficiency: Also known as the Sjogren-Larsson syndrome, this is a genetic (inherited) disease usually characterized by a triad of clinical findings consisting of ichthyosis (thickened fish-like skin), spastic paraplegia (spasticity of the legs) and mmore detail info...
Fart
Fart: This is not an accepted medical word for passing gas. The Oxford English Dictionary (OED) notes that fart is ôNot in decent use.ö The OED defines the transitive verb form of fart: ôTo send forth as wind from the anus 1632.ö The word comesmore detail info...
FAS (fetal alcohol syndrome)
FAS (fetal alcohol syndrome): The sum total of the damage done to the child before birth as a result of the mother drinking alcohol during pregnancy. FAS always involves brain damage, impaired growth, and head and face abnormalities. No amount of alcohmore detail info...
FAS (fetal alcohol syndrome) diagnosis
FAS (fetal alcohol syndrome) diagnosis: To establish the diagnosis of FAS, the following signs must be present: 1. Small size and weight before and after birth (pre- and postnatal growth retardation); 2. Brain involvement with evidence for delay in devmore detail info...
Fascia
Fascia: The fascia is a lining tissue under the skin that covers a surface of underlying tissues. Fascia also encloses muscles. Inflammation of the fascia is referred to as fasciitis.more detail info...
Fasciitis
Fasciitis: Inflammation of the fascia (a lining tissue under the skin that covers a surface of underlying tissues).more detail info...
Fasciitis, eosinophilic (Shulman syndrome)
Fasciitis, eosinophilic (Shulman syndrome): A disease which leads to inflammation and thickening of the skin and fascia. (The fascia is a lining tissue under the skin that covers a surface of underlying tissues. When the fascia is inflamed, the conmore detail info...
Fasciitis, plantar
Fasciitis, plantar: Inflammation of the plantar fascia (fasciitis), the &bowstring-like& tissue stretching from the heel underneath the sole. Plantar fasciitis is often due to a bony spur projecting from the underside of the heel that makemore detail info...
Fasting blood glucose
Fasting blood glucose: A method for learning how much glucose (sugar) there is in a blood sample taken after an overnight fast. The fasting blood glucose test is commonly used in the detection of diabetes mellitus. A blood sample is taken in a lab,more detail info...
Fat
Fat: One of the three nutrients that are used as energy sources (calories) by the body. (The other energy sources are in the form of carbohydrates and proteins. Intake of monounsaturated and polyunsaturated fats can help to reduce blood cholestmore detail info...
Fatty alcohol:NAD+ oxidoreductase deficiency
Fatty alcohol:NAD+ oxidoreductase deficiency: Clinically known as the Sjogren-Larsson syndrome, this is a genetic (inherited) disease usually characterized by a triad of findings consisting of ichthyosis (thickened fish-like skin), spastic paraplegia (spmore detail info...
Fatty aldehyde dehydrogenase deficiency
Fatty aldehyde dehydrogenase deficiency: Also known as the Sjogren-Larsson syndrome, this is a genetic (inherited) disease usually characterized by a triad of clinical findings consisting of ichthyosis (thickened fish-like skin), spastic paraplegia (spastmore detail info...