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Asexual
1. Without sexual desire or interest. Someone with seemingly no sexual drive. 2. Referring to reproduction without the combination of genetic material with another individual. Yeast can reproduce asexually by budding
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- Irrigate To wash out as, for example, a wound to clean it.
- Piss A vulgar but ancient word used both as a noun and verb:1. (noun) Urine.2. (verb) To urinate.Piss is descended…
- Uterus cancer See: Uterine cancer
- C peptide See: C-peptide
- Levonorgestrel A progestin. Named levonorgestrel because it is the levorotatory form of norgestrel. Used in combination with…
- Amini, Fariborz Iranian-born American psychiatrist (1930-2004), at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF), known…
- Sequence, finished DNA A DNA sequence in which the bases are identified to an accuracy of no more than 1 error in 10,000 and are…
- Assistive device Any device that is designed, made, or adapted to assist a person perform a particular task. For examples…
- Dementia, multi-infarct See Vascular dementia
- Chromosome inversion, paracentric The chart of the linear array of genes on a chromosome. A chromosome map can also refer to the visual…
- Shock, toxic See Syndrome, toxic shock.