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ecchymosis

Health care; Diseases

Extravasation of blood into the skin, resulting in a nonelevated, rounded or irregular, blue or purplish patch, larger than a petechia.

pickwickian syndrome

Health care; Diseases

Extreme obesity with polycythemia, somnolence, hypoventilation, arterial unsaturation and hypercapnia, and pulmonary hypertension.

Exudative and proliferative inflammatory alterations of the endocardium, characterized by the presence of vegetations on the surface of the endocardium or in the endocardium itself, and most commonly ...

placental insufficiency

Health care; Diseases

Failure of the placenta to deliver an adequate supply of nutrients and oxygen to the fetus.

velopharyngeal insufficiency

Health care; Diseases

Failure of the soft palate to reach the posterior pharyngeal wall. It may be caused by cleft palate surgery, palatal or pharyngeal abnormalities or injury, or neuromuscular dysfunction of the ...