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Rhinitis is the medical term describing irritation and inflammation of the nose. Symptoms include a runny nose, sneezing, congestion and irritation in the nose, eyes, throat and ears. It is related to and often occurs together with other disorders such as asthma and sinusitis. Rhinitis - Types. ICD-10 codes are provided for the major types of rhinitis: (J00) Rhinitis is first usually divided into acute or chronic, with acute rhinitis classified with the common cold. ... Including:

• Rhinitis - Types

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accent acute accent ( ˊ ) double acute accent ( ˝ ) grave accent ( ˋ ) breve ( ˘ ) caron / háček ( ˇ ) cedilla ( ¸ ) circumflex ( ˆ ) diaeresis ( Including:

• Double acute accent - Use in Hungarian
• Double acute accent - Other uses
• Double acute accent - Technical notes
• Double acute accent - External link

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Alcoholism is a dependency on alcoholic beverages characterized by craving (a strong need to drink), loss of control (being unable to stop drinking despite a desire to do so), physical dependence, tolerance (increasing difficulty in becoming drunk), and withdrawal symptoms. It can also be described as an addiction to alcoholic beverages that results in a consumption of alcohol in circumstances that damage one's ability to pursue one's other desires. Alcoholism - Biological mechanism. The consumption of alco ... Including:

• Alcoholism - Biological mechanism
• Alcoholism - Alcoholism as a disease
• Alcoholism - Effects
• Alcoholism - Screening
• Alcoholism - Blood tests
• Alcoholism - Medical effects
• Alcoholism - Treatments
• Alcoholism - Social impact
• Alcoholism - Social versus physical dependence
• Alcoholism - Politics and public health
• Alcoholism - Alcohol withdrawal

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In 1906, Chagas returned to Rio de Janeiro and joined the Oswaldo Cruz Institute, where he remained working for the rest of his life. In 1909, he was sent by the Institute to the small city of Lassance, near the São Francisco River, to combat a malaria oubreak among the workers of a new railroad to the city of Belém in the Amazon. He stayed there for the next two years and soon was able to observe the peculiar infestation of the rural houses with a large hematophagous insect of the genus Triatoma, a kind of "assassin bug" or "kissin ...

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Cardiovascular disease usually occurs as a result of arterial damage. The symptoms and treatments depend on which set (or sets) of arteries are affected. In coronary heart disease, atherosclerotic plaques (inflamed fatty deposits in the blood vessel wall) obstruct the coronary arteries (blood vessels supplying the heart). Narrowing of arteries is called arterial stenosis. When the blockages become severe enough, the blood flow to the heart is restricted (cardiac ischemia), especially during increased demand (i.e. during exertion or em ...

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The consumption of alcohol causes a release of endorphins into our system. Endorphins are one of our body's learning mechanisms - they act as a reward system to encourage the behaviors and sensations that were just performed and experienced, encouraging us to do them again. They function by increasing the strength of neural pathways that have recently been used. Over time this builds up a craving that results in uncontrolled drinking. People with a more active endorphin release system get a heavier dose of this encouragement and are t ...

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Standard Hungarian has 14 vowels in a symmetrical system: seven short vowels, (a, e, i, o, ö, u, ü) and seven long ones, which are written with in the case of a, e, i, o, u with an acute accent, and in the case of ö, ü with the double acute (instead of using diaeresis+acute). (Vowel length has phonemic significance in Hungarian, that is, it has a lexical and grammatical distinctive function). The double acute acts as combined acute with a diaeresi ...

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Acute myelogenous leukemia - World Health Organization WHO classification. The World Health Organization (WHO) classification of acute myeloid leukemia (AML) attempts to be more applicable and produce more meaningful prognostic information then the older French-American-British (FAB) criteria, described below. The WHO criteria are: AML with characteristic genetic abnormalities, which includes AML with translocations between chromosome 8 and 21 [t(i;21)], inversions in chromosome 16 [inv(16)] a ...

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Chagas was the son of José Justiniano das Chagas, a coffee farmer from Minas Gerais, and Mariana Cândida Chagas. After his secondary studies at Itu, São Paulo and São João del Rei, he enrolled in the School of Mining Engineering at Ouro Preto, but changed to the Medical School of Rio de Janeiro in 1897, influenced by his uncle, who was a physician and owner of a hospital at that city. He graduated in 1902 and got his M.D. in the following year with a thesis on the hematology of malaria, working at the new medical research institute created by noted physician and, later, fri ...

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The causes, prevention, and treatment of all forms of cardiovascular disease are active fields of biomedical research, with hundreds of scientific studies being published on a weekly basis. A fairly recent emphasis is on the link between low-grade inflammation that hallmarks atherosclerosis and its possible interventions. C-reactive protein (CRP) is an inflammatory marker that may be present in increased levels in the blood in patients at risk for cardiovascular disease. Its exact r ...

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The National Institue of Mental Health remarks on several disorders that may co-occur with Bipolar I and/or II. As these disorders are not all episodic, they may present themselves during the course of both mood dysregulation or mood stability. Further, the medications used to manage the symptoms of Bipolar disorders may be ineffective against the symptoms of co-current disorders, and, in some cases, even contraindicated or activating. The symptoms anxiety disorder and/or obsessive compulsive disorder (mild or severe) may co-occur inc ...

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Bipolar disorder manifests itself in numerous ways, most notably: Depression: symptoms include a persistent sad mood; loss of interest or pleasure in activities that were once enjoyed; significant changes in body weight; significant changes in appetite; difficulty sleeping or oversleeping; physical slowing or agitation; loss of energy; feelings of worthlessness or inappropriate guilt; difficulty thinking or concentrating; recurrent thoughts of self-harm, death or suicide. (Some people are also diagnosed and treated for obsessive ...

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The American Psychiatric Association no longer recognizes the existence of "alcoholism" as a diagnostic category per se. With the publication of the DSM-III in 1980, two separate syndromes of alcohol dependence and alcohol abuse replace the earlier category. Although the word "alcoholism" survives in popular usage and in the literature of certain groups such as Alcoholics Anonymous, the medical community recognizes the term through those two syndromes. [1] The World Health Organization also dropped the diagnostic category "alco ...

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A diagnosis of bipolar disorder means the diagnosis of clinical depression and at least one major manic episode. Quite frequently, a patient will be diagnosed with clinical depression, modified to bipolar after the onset of mania. The causes of a manic episode may originate from other medical or environmental causes, leaving the diagnosis of Bipolar disorder in doubt. See manic episode or depressive episode. According to the DSM person can have symptoms of mania without having ...

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