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Arbovirus
A class of viruses transmitted to humans by arthropods such as mosquitoes and ticks. The first two letters of the words arthropod' and borne, make up the 'arbo' that now designates this group of viruses as arthropod-borne. The name…
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Show more- Iatrics Due to the action of a physician or a therapy the doctor prescibed. An iatrogenic disease may be…
- Oligohydramnios Scant amniotic fluid: less than usual.
- Canine heartworm Dirofilaria immitis. See: Heartworm
- Fever, breakbone An acute mosquito-borne viral illness of sudden onset that usually follows a benign course with headache…
- Septum, interatrial The wall separating the upper chambers (the atria) of the heart. A hole in the interatrial septum is termed…
- Subscapular Under the scapula, like the subscapularis muscle, which originates beneath the scapula.
- Appendiceal rupture Rupture of appendix
- Meiotic Pertaining to meiosis (the process of germ cell formation).
- Microscopy The examination of minute objects by means of a microscope, an instrument which provides an enlarged image of…
- Animal-to-human transplant Transplant: See Xenotransplantation
- Ejaculation Ejection of sperm and seminal fluid
- Transforming principle Name originally given to DNA. In 1944 Avery, MacLeod, and McCarty published their discovery that the…