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Behavioral medicine
An interdisciplinary field of research and practice that focuses on how people's thoughts and behavior affect their health and disease. Behavioral medicine is concerned, for example, with undesirable behaviors such as drug abuse and…
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Show more- Pregnancy, dangerous drugs during A teratogen is an agent that can disturb the development of the embryo or fetus. Teratogens halt the…
- Lindau-von Hippel syndrome See Von Hippel-Lindau syndrome
- Omega-3 fatty acids Omega-3 fatty acids: A class of fatty acids found in fish oils, especially from salmon and other cold-water…
- Peripheral blood stem cell transplantation Peripheral blood stem cell transplantation: A new technique in which stem cells are obtained from a patient's…
- Research, controlled A study that compared results from a treated group and a control group. The control group may receive no…
- Sign, Tinel's An examination test that is used by doctors to detect an irritated nerve. Tinel's sign is performed by…
- Tropical typhus See Typhus, scrub
- Leukemia, acute Cancer of the blood cells (leukemia) that progresses rapidly, as opposed to chronic leukemia which progresses…
- Cancer, uterus See: Uterine cancer
- Isoleucine An amino acid, one of the 20 building blocks of protein. A dietary essential amino acid, isoleucine is needed…
- Gigantism, eunuchoid Extremely tall stature due to the delayed onset of puberty which permits the continued growth of the long…
- Lethal gene, zygotic A gene that is lethal (fatal) for the zygote, the cell formed by the union of a sperm (male sex cell) and an…