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Glossaries

For many of us, medical and health insurance terms are unfamiliar or complex. Our glossaries define some of those terms.

Paralysis
A temporary suspension or permanent loss of function, especially loss of sensation or voluntary motion.

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Pancreatitis
Paralysis
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Parkinson's disease
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Pulmonary fibrosis
Pulmonary heart disease
Pyelonephritis
Pyloric stenosis

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