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RMSF
Rocky Mountain spotted fever.
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- Nominal aphasia See Anomia
- Basal temperature 1) Usually, a person's temperature on awakening in the morning. As changes in basal temperature accompany…
- Polio vaccine, Salk See polio vaccine, inactivated
- Induration Induration: Localized hardening of soft tissue of the body. The area becomes firm, but not as hard as bone
- Goldring See: Goldring, Sidney
- T-suppressor cells T cells that express the CD8 transmembrane glycoprotein (CD8+ T cells). They close down the immune response…
- Disease, mixed connective tissue A mixture of three diseases of connective tissue (the framework of the cells of the body) -- systemic lupus…
- Curie (Ci) A unit of radioactivity. (Specifically, the quantity of any radioactive nuclide in which the number of…
- Allogeneic Taken from different individuals of the same species. Two or more individuals are said to be allogeneic to…
- Vesiculitis Inflammation of a vesicle, and particularly of the seminal vesicles behind the male bladder
- Condyloma acuminatum See: Genital wart