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Growth hormone
A hormone made in the pituitary gland that stimulates the release of another hormone called somatomedin by the liver, thereby causing growth. Also known as somatotropin. Growth hormone is produced by the anterior pituitary gland, the front…
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- Short-term memory A system for temporarily storing and managing information required to carry out complex cognitive tasks such…
- Brushfield's spots Speckled iris. Little white spots that slightly elevated on the surface of the iris arranged in a ring…
- Stat See: STAT
- Listeriosis An important public health problem in N America involving infection caused by eating food contaminated with…
- CHARGE syndrome See: CHARGE association
- Neuromuscular Pertaining to both nerves and muscles, as in neuromuscular blockade by an anesthetic agent, the neuromuscular…
- Regulatory sequence A sequence of bases in DNA that controls gene expression
- Disease, Niemann-Pick See: Niemann-Pick disease
- Protein C deficiency Protein C is a protein in plasma that enters into the cascade of biochemical events leading to the formation…
- Blastomyces dermatitidis The fungus that causes a disease called blastomycosis
- Forearm The portion of the upper limb from the elbow to the wrist. In popular usage, the arm extends from the…