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Alzheimer's disease
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1. (pathology) A medical condition in which the sufferer experiences seizures (or convulsions) and blackouts.
2. from brain tissue changes; senile dementia of Alzheimer's type |
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Anesthesia
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1. (medicine) A method of preventing sensation, used to eliminate pain.
2. The loss or prevention of pain, as caused by anesthesia |
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Dyslexia
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1. (neurology, pathology) A learning disability in which a person finds it difficult to read and write.
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Cephalalgia
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1. (medicine) A pain in the head; headache
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Somnambulism
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1. sleepwalking.
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Radiculitis
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: inflammation of a nerve root
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Epilepsy
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1. (pathology) A medical condition in which the sufferer experiences seizures (or convulsions) and blackouts.
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Tranquilizer
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1. Anything that tranquillizes or soothes.
2. (pharmacology) A drug used to reduce anxiety or tension; a sedative. |
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Syncope
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1. A loss of consciousness when someone faints, a swoon.
o 1973: the rapidly-whitening face, the miserable fixed smile, meant a syncope within the next few bars. — Patrick O'Brian, HMS Surprise 2. A missing sound from the interior of a word, for example by changing cannot to can't or the pronunciation of placenames in -cester (e.g. Leicester) as -ster. 3. A missed beat or off-beat stress in music resulting in syncopation |
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Sciatica
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1. (pathology, neurology) Neuralgia of the sciatic nerve characterised by pain radiating down through the buttocks and the back of the thigh
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