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Alstrom syndrome
A progressive genetic disorder characterized by obesity, deafness, and visual problems in childhood and diabetes with insulin resistance (type 2 diabetes) and kidney failure in adulthood. Individuals with Alstrom syndrome have been…
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Show more- Medication, anti-infective Something capable of acting against infection, by inhibiting the spread of an infectious agent or by killing…
- Genome, Arabidopsis thaliana See: Arabidopsis thaliana genome
- Vessel, efferent A vessel carrying blood away from the heart. An artery or arteriole
- Mammogram Mammogram: An X-ray of the breast with the breast in a device that compresses and flattens it. There are two…
- Clinical trial See: Clinical trials. See also: Inconclusive clinical trial; Negative clinical trial; Non-inferior clinical…
- Chromesthesia A type of synesthesia in which which a nonvisual stimulus causes the individual to perceive color. Color…
- Pleurodesis A procedure that causes the membranes around the lung to stick together and prevents the buildup of fluid in…
- Sabin vaccine The oral polio vaccine developed by Dr. Albert S. Sabin. The first vaccine against poliomyelitis was…
- Test, Venereal Disease Research Laboratory A blood test for syphilis. Venereal Disease Research Laboratory is commonly abbreviated VDRL. A negative…
- Pollenosis See: Pollinosis
- Papilloma A small solid benign tumor with a clear-cut border that projects above the surrounding tissue
- Fornix conjunctivae The fornix of the conjunctivae refers to loose arching folds connecting the conjunctival membrane lining the…