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Juvenile chronic myelogenous leukemia
See: Juvenile myelomonocytic leukemia
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- Tuberculosis, active The presence of Mycobacterium tuberculosis infection with a positive chest X-ray. Treatment of active…
- Gene, evolutionarily conserved A gene that has remained essentially unchanged throughout evolution. Conservation of a gene indicates that it…
- Inspissate To thicken. Inspissated bile is thickened bile
- Disease, Charcot-Marie-Tooth See: Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease
- Evolution The continuing process of change, especially in reference to natural selection. Charles Darwin (1809-82)…
- Thyroiditis, postpartum Postpartum Thyroiditis is an inflammation of the thyroid gland after pregnancy. NTER>
- Radiation, ultraviolet Invisible rays that are part of the energy that comes from the sun. Ultraviolet radiation can burn the skin…
- Spina bifida cystica A bony defect in the vertebral column that causes a cleft in that column. The meningeal membranes that cover…
- Nodular melanoma See: Melanoma, nodular
- Taenia In medicine, taenia is a genus (group) of large tapeworms some of which are parasitic in humans. In anatomy…
- Rodbell See: Rodbell, Martin