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Doraphobia
An abnormal and persistent fear of fur. Sufferers of this fear avoid fur-bearing animals such as dogs, cats, foxes, beavers and rabbits because fur is repulsive to them. Perhaps some of these phobics associate fur with childhood stories…
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- Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis 5 ALS5. A form of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) inherited in an autosomal recessive manner due to…
- Intraoperative blood salvage The recovery of blood that has been lost into a body cavity during surgery or due to trauma. This blood can…
- Facioscapulohumeral muscular dystrophy A form of muscular dystrophy that typically begins before age 20 with slowly progressive weakness of the…
- Empiric risk The chance that a disease will occur in a family based upon experience (past history, medical records, etc.)…
- Case-to-infection ratio The ratio of the number of cases of a disease compared to the number of infections with the agent that causes…
- Ullrich congenital muscular dystrophy A disorder evident at birth characterized by muscle weakness, contractures of multiple joints, and…
- Migraine, menstrual See: Menstrual migraine
- Extremophile An organism that lives under extreme conditions. An example of an extremophile is Methanococcus jannaschii, a…
- Repeat In genetics, two or more adjacent copies of an identical pattern of nucleotides in the DNA, as in tandem…
- Percutaneous umbilical blood sampling (PUBS) In PUBS, a needle is inserted through the mother's abdominal wall and the uterine wall. Blood can be…