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Show more- Effective dose The dose of a drug that will achieve the desired effect
- Elastase 2 Neutrophil elastase, an enzyme in neutrophils that digests elastin. The gene ELA2 encoding elastase 2 is on…
- Ramsay Hunt, James Pre-eminent 20th-century American neurologist (1872-1937) who described a number of important diseases…
- Ataxia-telangiectasia A progressive neurodegenerative genetic disease characterized by cerebellar ataxia (incoordination and lack…
- Coke Street name for cocaine, the most potent stimulant of natural origin, a bitter addictive anesthetic (pain…
- Anaphylaxis Anaphylaxis: Allergic reaction. In severe cases, this can include potentially deadly anaphylactic shock.
- Physiologic Something that is normal, neither due to anything pathologic nor significant in terms of causing illness
- OSA (obstructive sleep apnea) See: Oscillopsia.
- CWD Chronic wasting disease
- Orthopox The family of viruses to which belongs vaccinia, the virus that causes smallpox. Other members of the…
- Jail fever See: Typhus, epidemic
- Transplant, hand and forearm Transplantation of the hand and the forearm from one person (a deceased donor) to another (the recipient). In…