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Candida albicans
Any gene thought likely to cause a disease. The gene may be a candidate because it is located in a particular chromosome region suspected of being involved in the disease or its protein product may suggest that it could be the disease gene…
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Show more- PKU, maternal A "sugar pill" or any dummy medication or treatment. For example, in a controlled clinical trial, one group…
- Respiratory disease, acute A sudden condition in which breathing is difficult and the oxygen levels in the blood abruptly drop lower…
- Myasthenia gravis Prefix that denotes a relationship to fungus. From the Greek mykes, meaning fungus.
- System, autonomic nervous Part of the nervous system that was once thought to be functionally independent of the brain. The autonomic…
- MRDM Malnutrition-related diabetes mellitus. See: Tropical diabetes
- Signal transduction pathway The course by which a signal from outside a cell is converted to a functional change within the cell
- PARK11 Familial Parkinson disease type 11
- Auditory disease, central A condition in which there is an inability to differentiate, recognize or understand sounds while both the…
- Euthyroid The state of having normal thyroid gland function. As opposed to hyperthyroid (overactive thyroid) and…
- Bile duct cancer An uncommon type of cancer that arises from the bile duct, the tube that connects the liver and the…
- Naltrexone treatment program Treatment of opiate addicts with naltrexone, a long-acting synthetic opiate antagonist with few side effects…
- Tension 1) The pressure within a vessel, such as blood pressure: the pressure within the blood vessels. For example…