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Eugenics
Literally, meaning normal genes, eugenics aims to improve the genetic constitution of the human species by selective breeding. The use of Albert Einstein's sperm to conceive a child (by artificial insemination) would represent an attempt…
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Show more- Palliation To palliate a disease is to treat it partially and insofar as possible, but not cure it completely…
- Syncope, situational The temporary loss of consciousness in a particular kind of situation. The situations that trigger this…
- Louse-borne typhus See: Typhus, epidemic
- SIDDT Sudden infant death with dysgenesis of testes. SIDDT was first identified in an Old Order Amish community in…
- Truncation The act of truncating, cutting short. See: Truncate
- Umami The taste of substances such as glutamate and monosodium glutamate (MSG) that are found in foods like…
- Sella turcica The 'Turkish saddle' in which sits the pituitary gland. The sella is a bony box in the middle of the head. It…
- Alpha-defensin See: Defensin
- Birt-Hogg-Dube syndrome See: Doula (the first meaning).
- Cavities Cavities: Holes in the two outer layers of a tooth called the enamel and the dentin. The enamel is the…
- Urge incontinence A sudden involuntary contraction of the muscular wall of the bladder causing urinary urgency, an immediate…
- Inferior A large vein that receives blood from the lower extremities, pelvis and abdomen and delivers it to the right…