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Sickness, motion
Motion sickness is a very common disturbance of the inner ear that is caused by repeated motion such as from the swell of the sea, the movement of a car, the motion of a plane in turbulent air, etc. In the inner ear (which is also called…
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Show more- Myeloproliferative disorders Malignant diseases of certain bone marrow cells including those that give rise to the red blood cells, the…
- Migraineur A person who has migraine headache. Borrowed from the French
- Reading frame One of the three possible ways to read a nucleotide sequence in DNA or RNA as a series of nonoverlapping…
- Satellite DNA DNA that contains many tandem (not inverted) repeats of a short basic repeating unit. Satellite DNA is…
- Influenza, Hong Kong See: Hong Kong flu
- Optic nerve pathways The left and right branches of the optic nerves join behind the eyes, just in front of the pituitary gland…
- Naturopathic medicine See: Naturopathy
- Inner ear There are three sections of the ear. They are the external ear, the middle ear, and the inner ear. The inner…
- Acute myelogenous leukemia Acute myelogenous leukemia: Abbreviated AML. Also called acute myeloid leukemia or acute nonlymphocytic…
- T-cell leukemia A disease in which certain cells of the lymphoid system called T lymphocytes or T cells are malignant. T…
- Cholesterol, HDL See HDL cholesterol
- Insufficiency, small intestine See: Short bowel syndrome