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| a benign tumor of a glandular structure or of glandular origin |
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| abnormal fear of being helpless in a situation from which escape may be difficult or embarrassing that is characterized initially often by panic or anticipatory anxiety and finally by avoidance of open or public places |
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| : loss or impairment of voluntary activity (as of a muscle) |
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| pain in the head—called also headache |
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: 1: the operation of cutting or crushing the fetal head to effect delivery
2: surgical opening of the skull |
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| : latent strabismus in which the visual axes tend outward toward the temple—compare heterophoria |
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| : characterized by normal thyroid function |
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| abnormal protrusion of the eyeball |
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| an enlargement of the thyroid gland that is commonly visible as a swelling of the anterior part of the neck, that often results from insufficient intake of iodine and then is usually accompanied by hypothyroidism, and that in other cases is associated with hyperthyroidism usually together with toxic symptoms and exophthalmos—called also struma |
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| excessive appetite or eating |
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| : total or partial paralysis of one side of the body that results from disease of or injury to the motor centers of the brain |
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| the presence of excess insulin in the body resulting in hypoglycemia |
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| a condition in which visual images come to a focus behind the retina of the eye and vision is better for distant than for near objects—called also farsightedness, hypermetropia |
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| excessive functional activity of the thyroid gland; also: the resulting condition marked especially by increased metabolic rate, enlargement of the thyroid gland, rapid heart rate, and high blood pressure—called also thyrotoxicosis; |
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| an abnormal decrease of sugar in the blood |
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