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Yeast infection
Yeast infection Common fungal infection of the vagina, characterized by itching, burning, or redness of the vaginal area.
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Fungal
Pertaining to a fungus. For example, a fungal skin infection.
Infection
Anything that invades the body and reproduces. Infections can be bacteria, protozoa, fungi, or viruses. Bacteria and fungi are one celled creatures that cause many infections including strep throat, bladder infections, and some lung infections. Fungi cause “athlete’s foot” and thrush, an infection in the mouth. Protozoa are small organisms with many cells that can cause infections in the guts or in the lungs. Most healthy people do not get protozoal infections, but people with suppressed immune systems can. Viruses are not really organisms; they are tiny particles that can live only inside another cell. They reproduce by taking over a cell and causing that cell to make more virus particles, rather than doing what the cell is supposed to do. Viruses cause most colds and flu cases.
Vagina
The tube that forms the passage between the cervix/uterus and the vulva. It receives the penis during sexual intercourse and serves as the delivery passage for birth and for menstrual flow.
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Yeast
A single-celled fungus that reproduces by budding and may lead to infections of the skin or other moist areas.
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Yaws
An infectious nonvenereal disease caused by a spirochete, Treponema pertenue. Mainly found in humid, equatorial regions. Symptoms include febrile disturbances, rheumatism, eruption of tubercles with a caseous crust on hands, feet, face and external genitals. Yaws is also known as: bouba, frambesia, tropica, parangi.
Yellow Fever
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Yergason's sign
Pain on resisted supination of the arm due to bicipital tendonitis.
Yttrium
Radioactive isotope sometimes injected into a joint to effect a 'medical synovectomy'.
Yeast infection
Y chromosome
The chromosome that determines male gender.
Ycleptance
The tendency to name and describe one's environment, and to seek explanation and predictability for events; one of the five universal exigencies of being human.
Youth
The period of development between puberty and maturity; adolescence.
Yeast
A single-celled fungus that reproduces by budding and may lead to infections of the skin or other moist areas.
Yellow fever
An acute viral illness spread by mosquito bites. Characterized by fever and jaundice.
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