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Beverly Hills diet
The Beverly Hills diet is a weight loss plan based upon the premise that eating certain fruits leads to chemical reactions in the body that enhance weight loss. Only fruit is consumed for the first period (usually 10 days) on this diet…
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Show more- Shopaholic Someone obsessed with shopping. A compulsive shopper. From shop + -aholic, alteration of -oholic (as in…
- Sequester 1. In medicine, to set apart, detach or separate a small portion of tissue from the rest. 2. In bone, for a…
- Board eligible Board eligible in medicine means that a physician has completed the requirements for admission to a medical…
- Change, single base A change in which a single base in the DNA differs from the usual base at that position. These single base…
- Alternative Medicine, National Center for Compleme See: National Center for Complementary & Alternative Medicine
- Heterochromatin, facultative Heterochromatin that need not always be heterochromatic but which has the faculty to return to the normal…
- Hammer toe A flexed (curled) but not abnormally rotated toe. May require surgical correction
- Recombination The trading of fragments of genetic material between chromosomes before the egg and sperm cells are created…
- Karyocyte Any cell that possesses a nucleus. A neuron (nerve cell) is a karyocyte; it has a nucleus. A mature…
- Smith-Magenis syndrome A syndrome of abnormal physical, developmental and behavioral features due to microdeletion of chromosome 17…
- Barrett's esophagus Ng=0 width='100%' border=0> ODYvAlign=top bgColor=#cccccc colSpan=2> vAlign=top width='100%'…
- Menstrual synchronization A phenomenon that occurs when two or more menstruating women live together, in which the menstrual cycles of…