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Thalidomide
Thalidomide A sedative and hypnotic drug first marketed in the 1950s before it was known to cause pregnant women to give birth to babies with either missing limbs (amelia) or phocomelia (seal-flipper deformity of arms and/or legs)
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Hypnotic
1. Having to do with hypnosis. 2. Causing sleep.
Phocomelia
A birth defect of a limb, likened in everyday speech to a seal flipper, the hand or foot being attached to the trunk of the body by a single, small, deformed bone without, respectively, an elbow or knee.
Arms
An appendage in anatomy and in clinical trials. See: Arm.
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Thalassemia
An inherited disorder in which abnormal hemoglobin is formed; required repeated blood transfusions result in iron loading with especial impairment of functions of pituitary, heart and pancreas; prevalent in countries bordering the Mediterranean, in the Middle East, and in India and Southeast Asia.
Thalassery doctors
All doctors near Thalassery, India. Doctors who can assist a patient in Thalassery.
Thalassotherapy
The treatment of illness by sea air and sea water. It encompasses sea bathing, ocean voyaging, and sojourning at seaside resorts.
Thalitone
Thalitone is a prescription or over-the-counter drug which is (or once was) approved in the United States and possibly in other countries. Active ingredient(s): chlorthalidone.
Thallium Exercise Stress Test (Stress thallium test, Perfusion scan)
A type of nuclear scanning technique that uses the radioactive substance thallium. A thallium stress test combines nuclear scanning with exercise on a treadmill or stationary bicycle to assess heart function and determine if there is adequate flood flow to the myocardium.
Thallium stress test
A study in which radioactive potassium is carried by the blood and the progress is followed by x-ray pictures.
Thallous chloride tl 201
Thallous chloride tl 201 is a prescription or over-the-counter drug which is (or once was) approved in the United States and possibly in other countries. Active ingredient(s): thallous chloride, tl-201.
Thalomid
Thalomid is a prescription or over-the-counter drug which is (or once was) approved in the United States and possibly in other countries. Active ingredient(s): thalidomide.
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Trichotillomania
The pulling out of one's own hair to the point that it is noticeable and causing significant distress or impairment.
Telephonicophilia
A paraphilia of the solicitational/allurative type in which sexuoerotic arousal and facilitation or attainment of orgasm are responsive to and contingent on deception and ruse in luring or threatening a telephone respondent, known or unknown, into listening to, and making personally explicit conversation in the sexuoerotic vernacular [from telephone + -philia]. Typically, the caller is not dangerous, only a nuisance. There is no technical term for the reciprocal paraphilic condition of inviting and possibly charging for such telephone calls.
Telephone scatophilia
a paraphilia of the solicitational/allurative type in which sexuoerotic arousal and facilitation or attainment of orgasm are responsive to, and dependent upon deception and ruse in luring or threatening a telephone respondent, known or unknown, into listening to, and making personally explicit conversation in the sexuoerotic vernacular. Typically, the caller is not dangerous, only a nuisance. There is no technical term for the reciprocal paraphilic condition of inviting and possibly charging for such telephone calls.
Temporal lobe
In the brain, the part of each cerebral hemisphere that is named for its location internal to the temple.
Temporal lobe trauma
Injury to the temporal lobe of the brain, of either external or internal origin, with which there is associated an increased risk of temporal lobe epileptic seizures (psychomotor epilepsy, complex partial seizure) and, rarely, associated paraphilic attacks.
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Tomboy
A vernacular term applied to a girl whose developmental differentiation of gender-identity/role (G-I/R) as stereotypically defined is in variable degree discordant with the evidence of her genital morphology
Tonsillitis
Inflammation of the tonsils.
Toucheur
One who has the syndrome of toucheurism.
Toucheurism
A paraphilia of the solicitational/allurative type in which sexuoerotic arousal and facilitation or attainment of orgasm are responsive to, and contingent on surreptitiously touching a stranger on an erotic part of the body, particularly the breasts, buttocks, or genital area. There is no technical name for the reciprocal paraphilic condition, namely being sexuoerotically dependent on being touched by a stranger.
Transexual
A person manifesting the phenomenon of transexualism.
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