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Therapy, pulmonary
Exercises and treatments designed to help patients maintain and recover lung function, such as with cystic fibrosis and after surgery
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Show more- Gingivitis, acute membranous This is trench mouth, a progressive painful infection with ulceration, swelling and sloughing off of dead…
- Biological safety level 2 Level 2 biosafety
- Color, eye See: Eye color. See also: EYCL1; EYCL2; EYCL3
- Tetranucleotide A sequence of 4 base pairs. (Bases are the building blocks of DNA.) Expansion of a tetranucleotide repeat…
- FAP Familial adenomatous polyposis, a prominent hereditary colon cancer syndrome
- Arteritis, giant cell A chronic vascular disease, most often involving the carotid artery system, that can lead to blindness and/or…
- Os calcis See: Calcaneus
- Randomized The use of chance alone to assign the participants in an experiment or trial to different groups in order to…
- Folding motif An independent folding unit, or particular structure, that recurs in many molecules
- Hematologist A physician who is specially trained in the diagnosis, treatment, and prevention of diseases of the blood and…
- Plasma cell A type of white blood cell that produces and secretes antibodies. A plasma cell is a fully differentiated…
- Godfrey Hounsfield See: Hounsfield, Godfrey