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Microcystic corneal dystrophy
A disorder in which the cornea (the normally clear front window of the eye) shows dots (or microcysts), geographic map-like lines, and grayish fingerprint lines on examination with a slit-lamp, a device that focuses a high intensity light…
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- Doctors' symbol A staff or rod, with a snake curled around it. It is the staff or rod of Aesculapius (also called Asklepios)…
- Artery, central retinal The blood vessel that carries blood into the eye and supplies nutrition to the retina. The counterpart to the…
- DSS1 Or Dss1. A small protein important to the process of error-free DNA repair by recombination
- Alkaloid A member of a large group of chemicals that are made by plants and have nitrogen in them. Many alkaloids…
- Ankylosing spondylitis Ankylosing spondylitis: A type of arthritis that causes chronic inflammation of the spine and the sacroiliac…
- Floating rib One of the last two ribs. A rib is said to be 'floating' if it does not attach to the sternum (the breast…
- Colon The part of the large intestine that runs from the cecum to the rectum as a long hollow tube that serves to…
- CML Chronic myelogenous leukemia, which is also known as chronic myeloid leukemia and chronic myelocytic leukemia
- Metatarsals Five cylindrical bones extending from the heel (the tarsus) to the toes. The metatarsals are numbered from…
- Laboratory A place for doing tests and research procedures and preparing chemicals, etc. Although 'laboratory' looks…