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Biosafety level 1. The lowest level of biosafety, a level that applies to agents that do not ordinarily cause human disease
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- Snoring Snoring: A rough rattling noise made on inspiration during sleep by vibration of the soft palate (the back of…
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- Adamantine In dentistry, relating to the enamel of the teeth. Adamantine comes from the Greek and Latin word adamas…
- Measly The word measly can refer to measles, and, thence, to spotty and, thence, to something that is of little…
- Juvenile chronic myelogenous leukemia See: Juvenile myelomonocytic leukemia
- Concordance 1. The presence of any given condition such as HIV in both members of a couple.2. In genetics, the presence…
- Mismatch repair A system within the cell for correcting errors in DNA that works by detecting and replacing bases in the DNA…
- Carotid-artery stenosis See: Carotid stenosis