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Next to child neglect, physical abuse is the second most frequently reported form of child abuse, accounting for 25% of all cases of child abuse. Physical child abuse is physical injury inflicted upon the child with cruel and/or malicious…
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Show more- Junctional epidermolysis bullosa A blistering skin condition inherited in an autosomal recessive manner, due to mutation of a gene that…
- Perinatal transmission Transmission of a disease-causing agent (a pathogen) from mother to baby during the perinatal period, the…
- Cyanosis A bluish color of the skin and the mucous membranes due to insufficient oxygen in the blood. For example, the…
- CREST syndrome A limited form of scleroderma, a disease of connective tissue with the formation of scar tissue (fibrosis) in…
- Uveitis Uveitis: Inflammation of the uvea, the part of the eye that collectively refers to the iris, the choroid of…
- X-ray, AP An X-ray picture in which the beams pass from front-to-back (anteroposterior). An AP film is as opposed to a…
- Warburg apparatus A device used in biochemistry for measuring breathing (respiration) by tissues. Tissue slices are enclosed in…
- Pleiotropic 1. Producing many effects. 2. Multiple effects from a single gene. For example, the Marfan gene is…
- Draft DNA sequence Sequence of a DNA with less accuracy than a finished sequence. In a draft sequence, some segments are missing…
- Vasculitis Vasculitis: Plural: vasculitides. A general term for a group of diseases that feature inflammation of the…
- Cystine transport disease Commonly known as cystinuria, this is an inherited (genetic) disorder of the transport of an amino acid (a…
- Wolf-Hirschhorn syndrome Abbreviated WHS. A chromosome disorder due to partial deletion of the short (p) arm of chromosome 4. It is…