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Show more- Infection, hospital-acquired An infection caught while hospitalized. The medical term for a hospital-acquired infection is 'nosocomial.'…
- Irrigate To wash out as, for example, a wound to clean it.
- Polymorphic Pertaining to a polymorphism, a variation in the DNA that is too common to be due merely to new mutation. A…
- Hardy, James D. Pioneering American transplant surgeon responsible for three epochal operations: the first human lung…
- Last menstrual period By convention, pregnancies are dated in weeks starting from the first day of a woman's last menstrual period…
- Immunization, HIB This immunization is designed to prevent diseases caused by Haemophilus influenzae type B (HIB), a bacteria…
- Autosomal dominant radial drusen See: Malattia leventinese
- Subutex Brand name for buprenorphine
- Inhibitor, protease An agent that can keep a protease from working and splitting a protein into peptides. Protease inhibitors are…
- Vitamin K One of two naturally occurring fat-soluble vitamins (vitamin K1 and vitamin K2) needed for the clotting of…
- Molecules, recombinant DNA A combination of DNA molecules of different origin that are joined using recombinant DNA technology
- Am Symbol for americium