Category: A
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Asyllabia
Letters, but not syllables or words, are recognized. A form of alexia, in which the patient recognizes letters but cannot form syllables or words.
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Asternia
Absence of breastbone.
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Aspermatism, aspermia
Failure of semen to form or to be emitted.
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Asonia
Tone deafness.
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Asitia
Aversion to food.
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Apyretic
Without fever.
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Apyetous, apyous
Without pus.
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Aptyalism, aptyalia
Deficiency or absence of saliva. Absence of or deficiency in secretion of saliva. The condition may be caused by disease (mumps, typhoid fever), dehydration, drugs, radiation therapy to the salivary glands, old age, obstruction of salivary ducts, or Sjogren’s syndrome, in which there is deficient function of lacrimal, salivary, and other glands.
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Aproctia
Anus is closed or absent from birth. Congenital absence of the anus or its opening.
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Aponia
Freedom from pain.