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DefinitionAnophthalmia/microphthalmia–esophageal atresia (AEG) syndrome is a rare genetic condition in which a baby is born with one or both eyes missing or very small (anophthalmia or...
DefinitionAnorexia-Cachexia Syndrome is a common clinical problem characterized by loss of appetite and weight loss? or complex metabolic syndrome of involuntary weight loss associated with cancer and some...
DefinitionAnovulation is the failure to ovulate (expel a mature oocyte) owing to dysfunction of the ovary or suppression by drug treatment. Anovulation is a common cause...
DefinitionAnovulation is when the ovaries do not release an oocyte during the menstrual cycle. Therefore, ovulation does not take place. However, a woman who does not...
DefinitionAnovulatory Bleeding is non-cyclic uterine bleeding characterized by irregular, prolonged, and often heavy menstruation. It represents one of the identified causes of abnormal uterine bleeding (AUB),...
DefinitionThe anovulatory cycle is a menstrual cycle characterized by varying degrees of menstrual intervals and the absence of ovulation and a luteal phase. In the absence of ovulation, there will be infertility. When you’re...
DefinitionAntenatal abnormality means a problem in the baby that starts before birth and is found during pregnancy. Doctors often use this term for a structural problem,...
DefinitionAnterior asynclitism is a condition that occurs during childbirth when the baby’s head is tilted towards the front of the pelvis instead of being centered. This...
DefinitionAnterior Segment Dysgenesis (ASD) is a group of birth-time eye conditions where the front parts of the eye (the clear window called the cornea, the colored...
DefinitionAnterior segment mesenchymal dysgenesis (ASD) is a group of birth-present (congenital?) conditions where the front part of the eye does not form normally in the womb....
DefinitionAnterior segment ocular dysgenesis is a group of birth-time (congenital?) eye conditions in which the front structures of the eye—cornea, iris, lens, the drainage angle, and...
