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- Leyla Adamyan
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- Liborio Zerda
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- Lidia Rudnicka
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- Lightwood's law
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- Likelihood ratios in diagnostic testing
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- Limbic encephalitis
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- Limb–girdle muscular dystrophy
- Limb–mammary syndrome
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- Limited symptom attack
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- Linaclotide
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- Lincolnshire & Nottinghamshire Air Ambulance
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- Linea nigra
- Lineage markers
- Linear IgA bullous dermatosis
- Linear and whorled nevoid hypermelanosis
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- Linear epitope
- Linear focal elastosis
- Linear gingival erythema
- Linear no-threshold model
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- Lingual frenectomy
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- Lisa Bortolotti
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- London Research Institute
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- Lusitropy
- Luspatercept
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- Lutheran antigen system
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- Lymphology Association of North America
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- Lynestrenol
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- Lysinuric protein intolerance
- Lysosomal acid lipase deficiency
- Lytico-bodig disease
- Lépine's sign
- Léri–Weill dyschondrosteosis
- Löffler's syndrome
- Löfgren syndrome
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