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Athymic mouse
A laboratory mouse lacking a thymus gland. Athymic mice have no T cells and useful in research because they do not reject tumor or other cells transplanted from mice, humans or other species. See: Nude mouse
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Show more- DCIS See Pendred syndrome.
- Heel stick A procedure in which a newborn baby's heel is pricked and then a small amount of the blood is collected…
- Polyp A mass of tissue that develops on the inside wall of a hollow organ, as within the colon or rectum. The word…
- Computed tomography colography See: Virtual colonoscopy
- Cervical rib >True ribs: The first seven ribs attach to the sternum (the breast bone) in the front and are known as true…
- Fibulin 3 A protein that belongs to a family of extracellular proteins expressed in the basement membranes of blood…
- ACC Adenoid cystic carcinoma
- Xeroradiograph A picture of the body recorded on paper rather than on film. Also called a xerogram. From the Greek 'xeros'…
- AAAS Spoken of as the 'triple-AS', the American Association for the Advancement of Science is an organization…
- Bone, wing Familiar term for the scapula, also called the shoulder blade or blade bone, the flat triangular bone at the…
- Periodic fever Recurrences of fever that last from a few days to a few weeks and are separated by symptom-free intervals of…
- Skin graft, full-thickness A graft technique in which sheets of skin containing both the epidermis and the dermis are used