What is Ocular Torticollis? The word “Torticollis” has a Latin origin, from the word “torti,” which means twisted, and “collis” means neck. Torticollis is also known as wryneck. Alfred Herbert Tubby, an orthopaedic surgeon, was the first to define, in 1912, Torticollis as a deformity, either congenital or acquired, which …
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What is Subungual Exostosis? The Exostosis refers to the abnormal bony outgrowth. The word Exostosis is made of three words, which are Ex meaning out, Ost meaning bone, and Osis meaning abnormal growth or condition. The Subungual Exostosis is the abnormal bony outgrowth formed on the tip of the distal …
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The global COVID-19 pandemic has claimed to this date around 639,317 lives and infected 15,745,102 around the globe and it is still in the process of spreading its horror among people. The world is in the need of a vaccine to fight this devil. Therefore, the Pfizer and BioNTech have …
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The coronavirus pandemic has recently hit its 21 million marks. This ongoing pandemic has taken around seven hundred thousand lives. Search to find the vaccine to fight this pandemic has been ongoing since the day WHO declared it to the Public Health Emergency of International Concern. Among all this, various …
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Cansino coronavirus vaccine (Ad5-nCoV) is a viral vector vaccine that utilizes the Adenovirus. This Adenovirus is a Human adenovirus type-5 virus that is a common cold virus. The virus is genetically modified to make it non-virulent and replication-deficient. The Ad5-nCoV is developed by the Cansino Biologics incorporation which has collaborated …
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On 11thJanuary 2020, a team of the Jenner Institute at the University of Oxford started to make a vaccine for the COVID-19. They developed a recombinant viral vector vaccine. The vaccine developed was previously known as the Oxford Coronavirus vaccine (ChAdOx1) is now given name AZD1222 which is an adenovirus …
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The coronavirus pandemic has created dread around the globe. It has affected around 22 million individuals all over the world. The search for the vaccine is being carried out by researchers and scientists around the world. Among all this, Moderna, a biotechnology company in Cambridge, Massachusetts, has developed a vaccine …
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“Eikenella corrodens is a commensal gram-negative bacteria that is anaerobic, non-mobile and non-sporeforming bacillus that might have the pathogenic characteristics.” It naturally exists in the oral flora of the human body as well as in some other organs such as genital and intestinal tracts. Upon triggering of its transmission, it …
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Coronavirus is a type of virus that is known for the cause of serious respiratory illnesses including common cold leading to a fatal and contagious disease named coronavirus disease (COVID-19). The most common symptoms for this disease may include; fever, runny nose, body aches and shortness of breath (in severe …
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Coronavirus is a type of virus that is known for the cause of serious respiratory illnesses including common cold leading to a fatal and contagious disease named coronavirus disease (COVID-19). This deadly virus was originated from Wuhan, the city of China at the end of 2019 which has infected thousands …
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