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Disinsection
Spraying aircraft for insects, a procedure called disinsection. Some countries in Africa, Latin America, the Caribbean, Australia and the South Pacific require the spraying of the aircraft passenger compartment with insecticide while…
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- Zinsser disease Also called Brill-Zinsser disease, recrudescence of epidemic typhus years after the initial attack. The agent…
- AV (atrioventricular) AV is the standard medical abbreviation for atrioventricular, a combination that means pertaining to the…
- Trichinellosis A disease that comes from eating raw or undercooked pork or wild game that is infected with the larvae of a…
- Grand rounds A formal meeting at which physicians discuss the clinical case of one or more patients. Grand rounds…
- Family history of colon cancer See: Colon cancer family history
- RRNA Ribosomal RNA, a molecular component of a ribosome, the cell's essential protein factory. Strictly speaking…
- Fever, trench Fever, trench: A disease borne by body lice that was first recognized in the trenches of World War I, when it…
- Breast cancer gene BRCA1 A gene that normally acts to restrain the growth of cells in the breast but, when mutated, predisposes to…
- Reportable disease A disease that must be reported to federal, state, or local health officials when diagnosed. Reportable…
- Cardiac septum The septum of the heart is the dividing wall between the right and left sides of the heart. That portion of…