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Legionnaire disease
A disease due to the bacteria Legionella pneumophila found in plumbing, shower heads and water-storage tanks. Outbreaks of Legionella pneumonia have been attributed to evaporative condensers and cooling towers. The bacteria thrives in the…
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Show more- Bilateral Having, or relating to, two sides. Bilateral is as opposed, for example, to unilateral (which means having…
- ACS (American College of Surgeons) The American College of Surgeons was formed in 1913 under the aegis of Dr. John Miller Turpin Finney 'to…
- Familial Parkinson disease type 4 A familial form of Parkinson disease inherited in an autosomal dominant manner due to a gene on chromosome…
- MCP1 Monocyte chemotactic protein-1, a member of the small inducible gene (SIG) family, plays a role in the…
- Chargaff rule The rule that in DNA there is always equality in quantity between the bases A and T and between the bases G…
- Rib, true One of the first 7 pairs of ribs. A rib is said to be 'true' if it attaches to the sternum (the breast bone)…
- Sartorius muscle The long band of muscle that stretches from the calf to the pelvis. It moves the thigh and, by extension, the…
- Corpus amygdaloideum See: Amygdaloid nucleus
- Small inducible cytokine A2 See: MPC1
- Heteroplasia The replacement of normal tissue of the body by abnormal tissue or by malpositioned normal tissue, a tissue…
- Oral aversion Reluctance or refusal to feed or eat. A familiar example of oral aversion is a baby's refusal to breastfeed…
- Hypocarbia Less than the normal level of carbon dioxide in the blood. The opposite of hypercarbia