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MS/MS
Abbreviation for tandem mass spectrometry. See: Tandem mass spectrometry
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- Audiogram A test of hearing at a range of sound frequencies.
- Night blindness Impaired vision in dim light and in the dark, due to impaired function of specific vision cells (namely, the…
- Infertility Infertility: The diminished ability or the inability to conceive and have offspring. Infertility is also…
- Vertigo, recurrent aural A condition, also known as Meniere's disease, with recurrent vertigo accompanied by ringing in the ears…
- Mutagen Something capable of causing a gene-change. Among the known mutagens are radiation, certain chemicals and…
- Poikiloderma atrophicans with cataract Better known as the Rothmund-Thomson syndrome, this is an hereditary disease characterized by progressive…
- Saddle gall A sore on a horse caused by an ill-fitting saddle. Also called a saddle sore
- Palindromic Pertaining to a palindrome. A DNA sequence that reads the same in both directions is a palindromic sequence
- Transverse A fracture in which the break is across the bone, at a right angle to the long axis of the bone.
- Body type A somewhat old-fashioned term used to classify the human shape into three primary types: ectomorphic…
- Analytic specificity How well an assay detects only a specific substance and does not detect closely related substances