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Medical Terms
  • Vicodin
    • the drug House is addicted to which relieves pain and causes some euphoria.
  • Medical Infarction
    • what happened to the muscles in Dr. House's right leg that force him to walk with a limp and a cane.
  • Intensivist - Chase's specialty ::
  • Season 1 DVD
    Nephrology - one of Dr. House's three specialties::
  • Neurocystercercosis (tapeworm in the brain):
    • Forum on Starting Treatment: Neurocystercercosis:
      "Neurocystercercosis refers to brain infection with the larval stage of the pork tapeworm (Taenia solium). This infection is the most common parasitic brain infection worldwide and is fairly common in rural areas in South America, sub-Saharan Africa, and Asia where there is coexistence of pigs and humans in suboptimal hygienic conditions. Infection results when humans ingest food contaminated with eggs of the pork tapeworm." — Gerald Pierone, Jr., M.D.
  • Paraneoplastic Syndrome [#107], [#118]:
  • Differential Diagnosis (mentioned in most episodes):
    • MedicineNet.com — "The process of weighing the probability of one disease versus that of other diseases possibly accounting for a patient's illness. The differential diagnosis of rhinitis (a runny nose) includes allergic rhinitis (hayfever), the abuse of nasal decongestants and, of course, the common cold."
  • Diphenhydramine (what House is cutting as if it is cocaine in order to try snorting it for his hay fever/allergies):
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    Arteriovenous malformation (AVM) [#109]:
  • Neoplastic Syndrome [#110]:
  • vasculitis [most? episodes]:
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