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The number of cases of a disease per hundred thousand of population. The number of cases per year of certain diseases in relation to the population in which they occur.  

Showing symptoms of being diseased. Referring to disease. Referring to an unhealthy mental faculty. Relating to illness or affected bodily regions.  

A persistent ulcer of the cornea, found in elderly people [After Albert Mooren (1828-99), ophthalmologist in Dusseldorf, Germany]. A rare, inflammatory lesion of the peripheral cornea that causes significant eye pain and blindness if untreated. This condition is found in some patients with hepatitis C, other infectious diseases, or prior eye trauma or eye surgery.…

A condition in which someone has a round red face, occurring in Cushing’s syndrome and when there are too many steroid hormones in the body. Rounded, puffy face occurring in people treated with large doses of corticosteroids. A full, round face seen in Cushing’s syndrome or more often as a side effect of corticosteroid therapy.…

Sebaceous glands around the nipple which become more marked in pregnancy [After William Fetherstone Montgomery (1797-1859), Dublin gynaecologist].  

A diarrhoea which affects people travelling in foreign countries, often due to eating unwashed fruit or drinking water which has not been boiled (informal).  

A former term for a fetus or infant with severe developmental malformations, usually not able to live. Medical term for a grossly malformed, usually non-viable, fetus.  

Having a valency of one. Having a single electron available to chemically combine with another substance; common monovalent cations (carry a positive electrical charge) m the body include sodium (Na+) and potassium (K+). Having a single electron available in the outermost orbital for chemical bonding.  

Referring to a nervous pathway with only one synapse monovalent.  

A condition in which a person has a chromosome missing from one or more pairs. Chromosomal abnormality characterized by the absence of one chromosome from the normal diploid number for the species. A condition in which there is one chromosome missing from the normal (diploid) set. Condition of having only one of a pair of…