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A sudden occurrence of an illness The onset of an illness or symptom, usually dramatic (e.g., a heart attack or an attack of gout).  

Inflammation, thinning and shrinking of the tissues of the vagina caused by a lack of oestrogen. Inflammation of the vagina usually resulting from the reduction in estrogen after menopause that can cause the walls of the vagina to become drier, thinner, less elastic, and more likely to bleed. Vaginal dryness can cause irritation, burning, or…

Inflammation of the stomach caused by being unable to produce enough acid to kill bacteria. Chronic gastritis with atrophied mucosa and glands. The most common causes are autoimmune destruction of gastric glandular cells (a cause of pernicious anemia) or infection of the upper gastrointestinal tract with H. pylori.  

Advanced portal cirrhosis in which the liver has become considerably smaller and clumps of new cells are formed on the surface of the liver where fibrous tissue has replaced damaged liver cells.  

A groove round the outside of the heart, showing the division between the atria and ventricles.  

A bundle of modified cardiac muscle which conducts impulses from the atrioventricular node to the septum and then divides to connect with the ventricles. A bundle of modified heart muscle fibers (Purkinje fibers) passing from the atrioventricular (AV) node forward to the septum between the ventricles, where it divides into right and left bundles, one…

Referring to the atria and ventricles. Area of specialized heart muscle, located in the septal wall of the right atrium that receives impulses from the sinoatrial node (pacemaker) and transmits them to the bundle of His and thus to the walls of the ventricles, causing them to contract.  

Referring to one or both of the atria of the heart.  

The scarred remains of an ovarian follicle. An ovarian follicle that has undergone degeneration or involution.  

Referring to atresia.