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An acidic agar with a high dextrose content. It is used in microbiology to cultivate fungi and yeasts.  

An arenavirus that causes Brazilian hemorrhagic fever, a potentially fatal acute febrile disease. The reservoir for the virus is unknown. Ribavirin, which is effective against Lassa fever, also caused by an arenavirus, may be effective in this illness.  

An abdominal catastrophe marked by severe, often pleuritic pain, hemodynamic instability, blood loss into the peritoneum, and occasionally cardiovascular collapse and death. It may occur as a result of trauma or rarely in patients with infectious mononucleosis. Treatment may be conservative or may involve removal of the spleen. In delayed rupture of the spleen, a…

Acne caused by systemic or topical use of corticosteroid drugs.  

Repeated x-ray pictures taken of an area at defined but arbitrary intervals.  

A 0.05% aqueous solution of sodium fluoride also containing coloring and flavoring agents, used as a mouth rinse to help prevent dental caries.  

The opening of the inguinal canal that is just below the skin.  

Any of several localized or generalized conditions that cause pain around joints but are not related to or caused by joint disease (e.g., bursitis, tennis elbow, tendinitis, perichondritis, stiff man syndrome, Tietze’s disease).  

Retinitis resulting from or associated with syphilis. It may also involve the optic nerve (syphilitic neuroretinitis).  

Retinitis associated with septicemia resulting from pyogenic organisms.