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Pelizaeus-Merzbacher-like disease
A disease that is virtually identical to Pelizaeus-Merzbacher disease (PMD) but without a mutation in the PLP1 gene that causes PMD. Both PMD and Pelizaeus-Merzbacher-like disease (PMLD) are characterized by rapid, involuntary movements of…
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- Molluscacide An agent capable of killing snails and other mollusks or of controlling their growth
- Sumatriptan Sumatriptan: A triptan drug for the treatment of migraine. Marketed under the brand name Imitrex.
- Satellite DNA DNA that contains many tandem (not inverted) repeats of a short basic repeating unit. Satellite DNA is…
- Palindromic rheumatism To treat partially and incompletely. To palliate a diseases is to treat it partially but not cure it…
- Hammer The malleus
- Club drug A drug such as MDMA (Ecstasy), GHB, Rohypnol, ketamine, methamphetamine, and LSD that is used by young adults…
- Post-traumatic stress Stress: An anxiety disorder that develops in some individuals who have had major traumatic experiences. The…
- Talipes Clubfoot. The Latin word talipes was compounded from talus (ankle) + pes (foot) since, with the common…
- Genome, mitochondrial All of the genetic information contained in the chromosome of the mitochondrion, a structure located in the…
- Inversion, chromosome A chromosome segment is clipped out, turned upside down and reinserted back into the chromosome. A chromosome…
- Homosexuality 1 Trisomy of the same chromosome. The occurrence of two children in the same family with trisomy 21 is an…