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agammaglobulinaemia (medicine)


agammaglobulinaemia
<immunology> A rare disease where the body is unable to produce immune antibodies due to the lack of gamma globulin, a type of immunoglobulin, in the blood. The disease can be acquired or inherited as an X-linked recessive genetic disease.

Origin: Gr. Haima = blood


melaena (medicine)


melaena


1. <gastroenterology> The passage of dark, pitchy and grumous stools stained with blood pigments or with altered blood.

2. Black vomit.

Origin: Gr. Melaina, feminine of Gr. Melas = black