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Jennerization
The production of immunity to a disease by inoculation of an attenuated form of the virus causing the disease. Named after the English physician Edward Jenner (1749-1823). Jenner exploited the folk knowledge that people who caught cowpox…
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- Sociogenomics The identification of the genes that influence social behavior, the understanding of the influence of these…
- Trunk, pulmonary See: Pulmonary trunk
- Cervical vertebra, second The second cervical vertebra is called the axis. It is so-named because the uppermost cervical vertebra…
- Screening, newborn hearing Testing of the newborn baby's ability to hear. Newborn screening of hearing is done with automated auditory…
- Defibrillator, implantable cardiac A device put within the body that is designed to recognize certain types of abnormal heart rhythms…
- Bilharziasis A parasite infection by a trematode worm acquired from infested water. Also known as schistosomiasis. Species…
- Phenylalanine hydroxylase deficiency The inherited inability to process the amino acid phenylalanine normally, due to deficiency of the enzyme…
- Nonsense codon See: Stop codon
- Cholecystectomy Adding=0 width='100%' border=0> ODYvAlign=top bgColor=#cccccc colSpan=2> vAlign=top width='100%'…
- Subconjunctival hemorrhage Hemorrhage: A very common cause of a painless bloody eye usually first noticed by somebody else or by the…
- Global Initiative for Chronic Obstructive Lung Dis See: GOLD