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Arthropathy
Joint disease. The term arthropathy does not specify the type of joint disease. It might be osteoarthropathy or it might be infectious joint disease or it might another kind of joint disease. From arthro- (from the Greek arthron meaning…
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- American College of Nurse-Midwives See: Nurse-midwife
- Effects, fetal rubella The constellation of abnormalities, also called the rubella syndrome, caused by infection with the rubella…
- PEJ Percutaneous endoscopic jejunostomy
- Bruise A bruise or 'contusion' is an traumatic injury of the soft tissues which results in breakage of the local…
- Generic 1. The chemical name of a drug. 2. A term referring to the chemical makeup of a drug rather than to the…
- Neuroscientist A scientist who studies the nervous system, including the neural basis of behavior; parts of the nervous…
- Genetic code The instructions in a gene that tell the cell how to make a specific protein. A, T, G, and C are the…
- JMML Juvenile myelomonocytic leukemia
- Arginine An amino acid, one of the 20 amino acids that serve as the building blocks in protein. Arginine is not an…