| ginger |
A rhizome possessing many important culinary and medicinal qualities. It can be used in its fresh and dried forms as a flavoring or digestive aid. Its fresh juice is added to hot water to prepare ginger compresses. The juice, applied to minor burns, relieves stinging and prevents blistering through its anti-histamine action.PICTURE
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| ginseng |
An herb with a root that has been used in some cultures to treat certain medical problems. It may have anticancer effects.
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| Giacomini's band |
the grayish band constituting the anterior extension of the gyrus dentatus of the hippocampus over the inferior surface of the uncus.
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| Gilbert's sign |
opsiuria indicative of hepatic cirrhosis.
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| giant cell arteritis |
a chronic vascular disease of unknown origin in the elderly, often associated with polymyalgia rheumatica, seen usually in the external carotid arteries but sometimes in other arteries. Characteristics include proliferative inflammation, often with giant cells and granulomas; headache, pain with chewing, weight loss, fever, and sometimes ocular symptoms; and increased erythrocyte sedimentation rate. Called also cranial, granulomatous, or temporal a. and Horton's a., disease, or syndrome.
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