Category: L

Peritonitis confined to the area immediately surrounding an abscess, inflamed organ, or leak.  

A deformed pelvis in which the spinal column has an anterior curvature in the lumbar region.  

Paranoia in which the patient institutes or threatens to institute legal action because of the imagined persecution.  

Paralysis of a single muscle or one group of muscles.  

Extreme fatigue, a symptom of atypical depression.  

Loss of vocal fold mobility. Common causes include surgical trauma to the recurrent laryngeal nerve or invasion of the nerve by a tumor.  

Flaccid paralysis that begins in the lower extremities and rapidly ascends to the trunk. Sudden onset of ascending paralysis. Certain instances stem from polyneuritis, some from poliomyelitis, and others have an unidentified cause.  

The layer of the corium that adjoins the epidermis.  

Any one of the tiny eminences covering the anterior two thirds of the tongue, including circumvallate, filiform, fungiform, and conical papillae.  

The semidetached lobular part of the posterior surface of a head of the pancreas, sometimes having a separate duct opening into the principal one.