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Tabardillo
An epidemic louse-borne typhus fever occurring in parts of Mexico.
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Tabanka
A culture-bound illness specific to the West Indies in which men who are abandoned by their wives become severely depressed and may commit suicide.
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Tabanidae
A family of insects belonging to the order Diptera. It includes horseflies, gadflies, deer flies, and mango flies, all bloodsucking insects that attack humans and other warm-blooded animals. These flies are of medical importance because they are vectors of the filarial worm Loa loa, tularemia, and other diseases.
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Tabanid
A member of the dipterous family Tabanidae.
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Syzygy
Fusion of organs, each remaining distinct.
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Syzygium
Fusion of two parts or structures without loss of identity of the parts.
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Syzygiology
The study of interdependence or interrelationship of the whole as opposed to that of isolated functions or separate parts.
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Systremma
A cramp in the calf of the leg, the muscles forming a hard knot. A muscle spasm in the calf of the leg.
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Electrical systole
The total duration of the QRST complex in an electrocardiogram; it occurs just before the mechanical systole.
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Atrial systole
The contraction of the atria; it occurs before the contraction of the ventricles. About a fourth of the blood that fills the ventricles is squeezed into them during atrial systole. In atrial fibrillation, the atria beat erratically without a defined contraction, and ventricular filling is impaired. Colloquially, atrial systole is called the “atrial kick.
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