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Leucoplakia
A condition in which white patches form on mucous membranes, e.g. on the tongue or inside of the mouth.
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Leuconychia
A condition in which white marks appear on the fingernails.
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Leucoma
A white scar of the cornea.
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Leucolysin
A protein which destroys white blood cells. Toxin able to destroy leucocytes, formed by some strains of Staph, pyogenes.
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Leucodeplete
To remove white cells from the blood.
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Letterer-siwe disease
A usually fatal disease, most common in infants, caused by the overproduction of a specialised type of immune cell. The most common of three distinct histiocytosis syndromes collectively known as Langerhans cell histiocytosis, marked by proliferation of histiocytes in the viscera, bones, and skin. It is believed that this disease and the other two forms…
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Lethargic encephalitis
A common type of virus encephalitis occurring in epidemics in the 1920s.
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Lethargic
Showing lethargy.
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Lesser vestibular gland
The more anterior of the vestibular glands.
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Lesser trochanter
A projection on the femur which is the insertion of the psoas major muscle. A conical tuberosity on the medial and posterior surface of the upper end of the femur, at the junction of the shaft and neck.
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