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Tactile anaesthesia
The loss of the sensation of touch.
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Tacrolimus
A powerful immunosuppressant drug used to reduce the risk of organ transplant rejection. An immunosuppressant drug. Tacrolimus (Prograf) is used to impair the body’s natural immune system function in a person who has received an organ transplant, such as a liver, kidney, pancreas, lung, or heart. Tacrolimus works by preventing white blood cells from rejecting…
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Tachypnoea
Very fast breathing. An unusually rapid breathing rate, which could be due to factors like physical exertion, stress, or underlying lung or heart conditions.
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Tachyphrasia
A particularly rapid way of speaking, as occurs with some people with mental disorders. Rapid and voluble speech, such as that encountered in mania. Excessive volubility or rapidity of speech, as seen in mania and some other psychotic illnesses. Excessive talkativeness; occasionally an indicator of mental illness.
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Taboparesis
The final stage of syphilis in which the person has locomotor ataxia, general paralysis and mental deterioration. A late effect of syphilitic infection of the nervous system in which the patient shows features of tabes dorsalis and general paralysis of the insane. Muscle paralysis linked to tabes dorsalis.
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Tabetic
Wasting away or affected by tabes dorsalis. Pertaining to or suffering from tabes or tabes dorsalis.
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Tabes mesenterica
The wasting of glands in the abdomen. Emaciation and malnutrition caused by engorgement and tubercular degeneration of the mesenteric glands.
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Systolic murmur
A sound produced during systole which indicates an unusual condition of a heart valve. A systolic heart murmur is a sound produced by the heart, identifiable by a healthcare provider, that occurs during the contraction phase of the heartbeat known as systole. A systolic murmur typically results from the reverse flow of blood through the…
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Systemic lupus erythematosus
One of several collagen diseases which are forms of lupus, where red patches form on the skin and spread throughout the body. A chronic autoimmune inflammatory disease with characteristic facial “butterfly rash,” involving hematologic, cardiac, pulmonary, and renal systems. An autoimmune disorder that can cause arthritis and also affects several tissues and internal organs. Systemic…
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Systemic circulation
The circulation of blood around the whole body, except the lungs, starting with the aorta and returning through the venae cavae. System of blood vessels (arteries, veins, and capillaries) that supplies all of the body except the lungs. The system of blood vessels that supplies all parts of the body except the lungs. It consists…
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