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Malaria, pregnancy-associated
Someone who is versed in or engaged in the study of malaria. "Independent malariologists believe it kills two million people a year, mainly children under 5 and 90 percent of them in Africa." (Tina Rosenberg, writing in The New York Times…
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Show more- Blood, urinary Medically called hematuria, blood in the urine can be microscopic or gross. Evaluating hematuria requires…
- Salvage therapy 1. A final treatment for people who are nonresponsive to or cannot tolerate other available therapies for a…
- Trinucleotide A sequence of 3 base pairs; a triplet of bases. The gene code is made up of trinucleotides
- Thyroglobulin A protein found in the thyroid gland. Some thyroglobulin can be found in the blood, and this amount may be…
- Hormone, parathormone Hormone made by the parathyroid gland (behind the thyroid gland in the neck). Parathormone (pronounced…
- Reaction, hibernation See: SAD
- PAS 1. Physician-assisted suicide. 2. Personal alert system (an alarm system for an elderly or infirm person). 3…
- Cranial nerve II The second cranial is the optic nerve, the nerve that connects the eye to the brain and carries the impulses…
- Typist's cramp A dystonia that affects the muscles of the hand and sometimes the forearm and only occurs during handwriting…
- Delta cell, pancreatic A type of cell in the pancreas (the organ of the digestive system located behind the stomach). Within the…
- ATSDR The Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry, a part of the U.S. Department of Health and Human…
- QALY Quality adjusted life year, a year of life adjusted for its quality or its value. A year in perfect health is…