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Memory, working
Short-term (recent) memory. Working memory is a system for temporarily storing and managing the information required to carry out complex cognitive tasks such as learning, reasoning, and comprehension. Working memory is involved in the…
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Show more- Syndrome, Aase-Smith II See: Aase-Smith syndrome II
- Apnea, central sleep Sleep (CSA): Sleep apnea is a breathing disorder characterized by brief interruptions of breathing during…
- Static posture Any posture that is held for a long time. A static posture may result in fatigue and even injury over time
- Transplantation genetics The field of biology and medicine relating to the genes that govern the acceptance or rejection of a…
- NREM sleep Sleep: NREM (non-rapid eye movement) sleep is dreamless sleep. During NREM, the brain waves on the…
- West Nile virus West Nile virus: The mosquito-borne virus that causes West Nile fever. One of the flaviviruses, a family of…
- Noncoding DNA The strand of DNA that does not carry the information necessary to make proteins. DNA normally has two…
- APECED (autoimmune polyendocrinopathy) Laxative. Used both as a noun (an aperient is a laxative) and adjective (prunes are an aperient fruit). From…
- DHEA Dehydroepiandrosterone
- Coronary artery brachytherapy Local radiation treatment within an artery to the heart. Coronary artery brachytherapy has been used to…
- Fever, Pontiac See: Pontiac fever
- Breast cancer gene One of the genes that contributes to breast cancer. See also: BRCA breast cancer gene