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Fasciolopsis
The giant intestinal fluke. See: Fasciolopsis.
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- Pains, growing Mysterious pains in growing children, usually in the legs. These pains are similar to what the weekend…
- HAART Stands for highly active antiretroviral therapy. Treatment with a very potent drug 'cocktail' to suppress the…
- Fiber, soluble and insoluble Fiber: Fiber (the portion of plants that cannot be digested by the human digestive tract) is classified as…
- Mb Megabase
- DNA repair pathway The sequence of steps in the repair of DNA. Each step is governed by an enzyme.
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- Adenomyomata Plural form of adenomyoma
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