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Gingivitis
Gum disease with inflammation of the gums. On inspection, the gums will appear red and puffy, and will usually bleed during tooth-brushing or dental examination. Treatment is by improved cleaning, with more-frequent and longer brushing and flossing, and/or the use of electronic tooth-cleaning equipment. Antiseptic mouthwashes may also be recommended. See also acute membranous gingivitis, gum disease.
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Giardiasis
Infection with Giardia lamblia.
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Giardia lamblia
A parasite responsible for a contagious form of diarrhea. The parasite is most commonly transmitted through direct contact with infected feces or by eating food or drinking water contaminated by feces. Giardia is one of the most common intestinal parasites in the world. The disease is most prevalent in developing countries, where infections are associated with poor…
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Giant platelet syndrome (Bernard-Soulier syndrome)
This condition is a primary problem of platelets in which the platelets lack the ability to stick adequately to injured blood vessel walls and as a result of this problem there is abnormal bleeding. The giant platelet syndrome usually presents in the newborn period, infancy, or early childhood with bruises, nose bleeds (epistaxis), and/or gum (gingival) bleeding. Later problems…
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Giant hypertrophic gastritis
A premalignant disorder of the stomach characterized by overgrowth of the stomach lining (the gastric mucosa) and hypoalbuminemia (low blood serum level of albumin) due to loss of albumin by the stomach. The abnormalities of the stomach are highly characteristic with giant folds, excess mucus secretion by the lining of the stomach, and hypochlorhydria (decreased acid secretion by the stomach). The disease…
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GI
1. In medicine, commonly used abbreviation for gastrointestinal, referring collectively to the stomach and the small and large intestine.2. Outside of medicine, GI may stand for galvanized iron, general issue or government issue (as in GI Joe).
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Gesundheit
Interjection used to wish “good health,” especially to someone who has sneezed. In this situation, Gesundheit is roughly equivalent to “God bless you.” In German “Gesundheit” means “health” (and “sanity”). Wishing “good health” was once thought to hold off the illness that might follow a sneeze. “God bless you” came into comparable usage to prevent the escape…
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Gestation period
Fetal development period from the time of conception until birth. For humans, the full gestation period is normally 9 months. The word “gestation” comes from the Latin “gestare” meaning “to carry or to bear.”
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Gesell Developmental Schedules
A measure of child development devised by the American child psychologist and pediatrician Arnold Gesell (1880-1961) who founded the Clinic of Child Development at Yale in 1911 and directed it for many years. There he pioneered the use of motion-picture cameras to study the development of normal infants and young children. He filmed the children,…
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Gerontology
Gerontology: the study of aging, including its social, psychological, cognitive, and biological aspects. Gerontology is broader than geriatrics, which is the medical specialty devoted to treatment and care of older people (seniors health). The term is derived from the Greek geron, “old man” and -logia, “study of.”
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