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Chyme
A pre-digested, acidified mass of food that passes from the stomach into the small intestine
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- Evening primrose oil A natural source of essential fatty acids (EFOs). Evening primrose oil contains a higher level of arachnoidic…
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- Malady From the French maladie for illness.
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- Carbohydrate Mainly sugars and starches, together constituting one of the three principal types of nutrients used as…
- Candidiasis, oral Yeast infection of the mouth and throat caused by the fungus Candida albicans; also known as thrush. Yeast…
- Philtrum The area from below the nose to the upper lip. Normally the philtrum is grooved. In fetal alcohol syndrome…
- Dicentric chromosome An abnormal chromosome with two centromeres rather than the normal one. Every normal chromosome has one…
- Nitrogenous base A molecule that contains nitrogen and has the chemical properties of a base. The nitrogenous bases in DNA are…
- Ergotism Ergotism could be called a 'cereal killer' for its cause, ergot, comes from cereals such as rye and wheat and…