Medicina: Ematologia: Talassemie e trapianto del midollo osseo
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| jaundice |
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| Attestation |
3
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| Part of speech |
Noun
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| Grammatical label |
Countable
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| Definition |
A yellow discoloring of the skin, mucous membranes, and eyes, caused by too much bilirubin in the blood. Jaundice is a condition produced when excess amounts of bilirubin circulating in the blood stream dissolve in the subcutaneous fat (the layer of fat just beneath the skin), causing a yellowish appearance of the skin and the whites of the eyes. With the exception of physiologic jaundice in the newborn (normal newborn jaundice in the first week of life), all other jaundice indicates overload or damage to the liver, or inability to move bilirubin from the liver through the biliary tract to the gut.
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| Definition source |
MEDLINEplus Health Information. ADAM Medical Encyclopedia.
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| Context |
The seven-year old boy was from a Chinese family from Guangdong province of South China. He visited our genetic consultation clinic because of moderate anemia, jaundice, and hepatosplenomegaly for years.
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| Context source |
Zhao, Y. & Xu, X. (2001). ‘Alpha2(CD31 AGG-->AAG, Arg-->Lys) causing non-deletional alpha-thalassemia in a Chinese family with HbH disease’. Haematologica 86(5):541-2. (RISCEN24)
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| Subject field |
Haemopoiesis
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| Sub-field (level 1) |
Thalassemias
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| Generic concept |
Hepatopathy
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| Specific concept |
Chronic idiopathic jaundice, neonatal jaundice, jaundice of the newborn
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| it |
Ittero
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| Reliability code |
3
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