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Chronic granulocytic leukemia
See: Chronic myelogenous leukemia
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- Manorexia A term that has been used to refer to anorexia nervosa in males. This is not an officially recognized medical…
- Protozoa A single-cell organism that can only divide within a host organism. Malaria is caused by a protozoa…
- Joint, calcaneocuboid The calcaneocuboid joint is located in the foot between the calcaneus bone (the heel bone) and the cuboid…
- Neurosyphilis Neurological complications in the third (tertiary) and final phase of syphilis, which involve the central…
- Cadaver wart A warty growth on the hand due to tuberculosis, typically of someone doing postmortem examinations. A cadaver…
- Anthrax toxin The toxic substance secreted by the bacterium Bacillus anthracis, the causative agent of the disease anthrax…
- Open reading frame A long sequence of DNA that has no stop codon (no signal to stop reading) and therefore may encode part or…
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