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Show more- Intelligence, verbal Innate or learned ability to understand and answer questions given in writing or verbally
- Neuroscience The study of the brain and nervous system, including molecular neuroscience, cellular neuroscience, cognitive…
- Thyroiditis, subacute Subacute Thyroiditis is an inflammation of the thyroid gland after a viral illness. NTER>
- Polymorphism A variation in the DNA that is too common to be due merely to new mutation. A polymorphism must have a…
- Writer's cramp A dystonia that affects the muscles of the hand and sometimes the forearm and only occurs during handwriting…
- Red jungle fowl genome The genome of Gallus gallus, the ancestor of domestic chickens. See: Chicken genome
- Tetralogy of Fallot A combination of four heart defects that are present together at birth, accounting for about 10% of all…
- CMG2 Capillary morphogenesis gene 2, a transmembrane protein that is induced during capillary morphogenesis (the…
- Diagnostic mammogram An X-ray of the breast done to evaluate: > >Abnormalities seen or suspected on a prior screening mammogram…
- Myeloma A tumor of antibody-producing cells, called plasma cells, that are normally found in the bone marrow
- Proximo- Proximal
- Sutton law See: Sutton's law