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Jamaica AIDS Support is a voluntary organisation based in Kingston, Jamaica offering care and comfort to patients diagnosed as having AIDS. By an ironic twist of fate and circumstance, Jamaica AIDS support being poorly funded and unable to afford the poisonous drugs given to AIDS patients elsewhere in the world so instead offers a holistic treatment of gentleness, tranquility, support, and a wholesome diet resulting in many of the patients becoming free of the disease and returning to the community to live normal lives. Because of the prejudice and fear within Jamaican society, Jamaican AIDS support operates in semi-secrecy, the volunteers remaining anonymous outside of the organisation for fear of fatal reprisals. It is a source of conjecture as to why the rest of the world ignores the Jamaican model which is unique in treating and curing AIDS which is elsewhere considered terminal and incurable, though it may be the refusal to accept any alternative theory as to the cause of AIDS other than HIV, and especially a reluctance to consider the role of stress in human
immuno-deficiency, as suggested by both Professor Alfred Hassig of the Swiss Red Cross and Matthew Probert formerly of the British charity Continuum.
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Japanophobia is the fear of Japanese people.
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Jaundice is a yellowing of the skin, conjunctivae, and mucous membranes caused by excessive amounts of bile pigments in the blood tissues. These pigments, normally present in blood as a result of the breakdown of haemoglobin in red blood cells, are filtered through the liver and excreted. Excessive amounts of these pigments produce four types of jaundice. In haemolytic jaundice there is increased production of bile pigment because of red blood-cell damage. This damage can be caused by antibodies created by a mismatched blood transfusion. In infants the antibodies can be caused by prenatal mismatch between the Rh factor in the infant' s blood and that of the mother. Newborns can also be jaundiced as a consequence of the condition known as hyperbilirubinemia. In these cases, there is a temporary defect in synthesis of the enzyme that breaks down bile to an excretable form. Hepatocellular jaundice occurs when liver cells are damaged either by viruses or by excessive intake of alcohol and lose the ability to filter pigment. Obstructive jaundice
follows physical obstruction of the ducts that transport pigment from the liver to the intestine. Blockage can be due to gallstones, tumour, or inflammation.
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Jerramcil is a brand name for Amoxicillin.
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Jesuit's Bark, later called Peruvian Bark (fever-wood) is the bark of the cinchona or chinchona tree. Its existence was brought to Europeans by a Jesuit about 1535 but it was not generally used until 1633 when the wife of the viceroy of Peru was cured of a fever with it. She brought it to Europe in 1639 and it came into general use in 1680. The active constituent of Jesuit's Bark is quinine.
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Johne's Disease is a chronic disease of sheep and cattle caused by infection with Myobacterium paratuberculosis causing chronic diarrhoea. The disease was discovered around 1905 and is named after the German scientist H A Johne.
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A joint is a structure where two bones meet.
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Judaeophobia is the fear of Jewish people and things.
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Judeophobia is the fear of Jews.
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The jugular fossa is the surface of the skull where the temporal and occipital bones meet. It features the jugular foramen, an opening in the skull formed at the juncture of the occipital and temporal bones. The jugular foramen admits the internal jugular vein and five nerves (three cranial, the glossopharyngeal, vagus, and accessory).
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The jugular notch is a notch located at the top of the manubrium of the sternum. This notch admits passage of the jugular vein along the bone.
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The jugular veins lie deep inside the neck. They receive the blood from the brain, face and neck and return it to the heart. The external jugular vein is larger than the other veins in the neck, sometimes double their size. It has two pairs of valves to assist in transporting blood. The first pair is placed at the entrance to the subclavian vein and the second pair is about an inch and a half above the clavicle. The internal jugular vein lies deeper in the neck and runs parallel to the carotid artery. It joins with the subclavian vein at its base to form the innominate vein. Like the external jugular vein, it also has two pairs of valves to assist in the transportation of blood. As the pockets of the valves fill with returning blood, the valves close and shut off part of the vein. Then, the muscles in the vein contract and help push the blood forward. The valves also make certain that the blood in the veins will never flow backward.
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