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Meaning of kernicterus




Danilo Enrique Noreña Benítez

kernicterus
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It's a medical term. Quernícterus can also be used. It is the name of a very serious neurological complication in neonates, due to the excessive increase of bilirubin in the blood. It is also called nuclear jaundice, ichthyeric encephalopathy, bilirubin encephalopathy or neonatal bilirubin encephalopathy.

  




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kernicterus : A form of jaundice that arises in the newborn, of special severity due to the tendency to produce irreversible neurological changes by impregnation of bilirubin in areas of the brain.

  



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