20 Terms
Contributors in Diseases
Diseases
Human papillomavirus (HPV)
Health care; Diseases
Human wart virus, which causes productive infections in the skin, but has also been linked to cancers of the anus, vulva, vagina and cervix in women, and the anus and penis in men. The virus is ...
angina
Health care; Diseases
Chest pain due to an inadequate supply of oxygen to the heart muscle. The chest pain of angina is typically severe and crushing. There is a feeling just behind the breastbone (the sternum) of ...
acid reflux
Health care; Diseases
A common condition and an abnormal one in which acid in the stomach rises up into the esophagus. This occurs because the valve separating the contents of the stomach from the esophagus does not ...
acute
Health care; Diseases
Often connotes an illness that is of short duration, rapidly progressive, and in need of urgent care.
insomnia
Health care; Diseases
The perception or complaint of inadequate or poor-quality sleep because of one or more of the following: difficulty falling asleep; waking up frequently during the night with difficulty returning to ...
