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VEGF
Vascular endothelial growth factor, a substance made by cells that stimulates the formation of new blood vessels, a process called angiogenesis. VEGF also acts as a mitogen for vascular endothelial (vessel lining) cells, stimulating these…
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- Syndrome, Klippel-Trenaunay-Weber (KTW) A congenital malformation syndrome characterized by the triad of asymmetric limb hypertrophy, hemangiomata…
- Chromatophobia An abnormal and persistent fear of money. Sufferers experience undue anxiety even though they realize their…
- Anteroposterior From front to back. When a chest x-ray is taken with the back against the film plate and the x-ray machine in…
- Plastic surgery The field of surgery concerned with reducing scarring or disfigurement that may occur as a result of…
- Distal The more (or most) distant of two (or more) things. For example, the distal end of the femur (the thigh bone)…
- Tomograph The apparatus for generating a tomogram, a two-dimensional image of a slice or section through a…
- Maggot A soft-bodied wormlike larva of a fly that lays its eggs in living or especially in decaying tissues. The…
- Infant, post-term An overly mature baby that has not been born until well after the usual term pregnancy. A post-term baby is…
- PIGF Placental growth factor
- Milk allergy, cow Casein and whey are the two major proteins of human milk and most milk-based formulas. Some (less than 8% of)…
- Homotrisomy Trisomy of the same chromosome. The occurrence of two children in the same family with trisomy 21 is an…