Medical Dictionary Definitions A-Z List
Medical Dictionary Definitions A - Z - «M»:
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Marker, blood
Marker, blood: A sign of a disease or condition
that can be isolated from a blood sample. For example, the
monoclonal antibody D8/17 is a diagnostic sign of Pediatric
Autoimmune Disorders associated with Strep....
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Marker, tumor
Marker, tumor: Tumor markers are substances that can be detected in higher-than-normal amounts in the blood, urine, or body tissues of some patients with certain types of cancer. A tumor marker may be made by a tumor itself or by the body in response to the tumor. Such a substance serves to "mark" t...
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Marmoreal
Marmoreal: Resembling marble. For example, the bone in osteoporosis appears marmoreal. From the Latin noun "marmor" meaning "marble."...
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Maroteaux-Lamy syndrome
Maroteaux-Lamy syndrome: A form of mucopolysaccharidosis with the clinical onset before age 3 that is characterized by an inability to metabolize dermatan sulfate. This leads to abnormal accumulation of dermatan sulfate, resulting in mild to severe changes in muscle,
bone, skin, and other tissues, ...
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Marriage, cousin
Marriage, cousin: A form of consanguinity. Everyone carries recessive
alleles, genes that are generally innocuous in the heterozygous state but that in the
company of another gene of the same type are capable of causing disease. We are all
genetic reservoirs for genetic disease. Since first cousins ...
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Marrow
Marrow: The
bone marrow....
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Marsh fever
Marsh fever: See
malaria....
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Marshall W. Nirenberg
Marshall W. Nirenberg: See: Nirenberg, Marshall W....
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Marshall-Smith syndrome
Marshall-Smith syndrome: A disorder characterized by advanced bone age at birth, broad forehead, prominent eyes, and small chin. There is difficulty feeding, failure to thrive, retarded psychomotor development, and predisposition to respiratory infection. It may be fatal within the first years of li...
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Martin Rodbell
Martin Rodbell: See: Rodbell, Martin....
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Martinus W. Beijerinck
Martinus W. Beijerinck: See: Beijerinck, Martinus W....
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Martorell syndrome
Martorell syndrome: Named after Fernando Martorell Otzet,
Spanish cardiologist (1906-1984). In 1944 Martorell provided an excellent description of a syndrome also known today as Takayasu disease. See: Takayasu disease....
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Marx
Marx: See: Marx, Gertie F....
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Marx, Gertie F.
Marx, Gertie F.: Distinguished German-born American physician known as the "mother of obstetric anesthesia." She almost singlehandedly developed obstetric anesthesiology as a specialty. She advanced the use of epidural injections to ease women's pain during childbirth. She developed an epidural need...
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MASA syndrome
MASA syndrome: MASA stands for mental retardation, aphasia,
shuffling
gait, and adducted thumbs. Features of the syndrome include:
neurologically: mental retardation and aphasia (lack
of speech);
limbs: adducted (clasped) thumbs, absent extensor
pollicis longus and/or brevis muscles to t...
