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Family
1. A group of individuals related by blood or marriage or by a feeling of closeness. 2. A biological classification of related plants or animals that is a division below the order and above the genus. 3. A group of genes related in…
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- Pinealoma An uncommon slow-growing tumor of the pineal gland. Symptoms include hydrocephalus, paralysis of upward gaze…
- Encephalopathy, mitochondrial (MELAS) MELAS is the acronym for Mitochondrial Encephalopathy, Lactic Acidosis, and Strokelike episodes. MELAS is a…
- Psoralen photochemotherapy See: PUVA
- Word deafness See: Auditory aphasia
- Extracellular Outside a cell. As opposed to intracellular, meaning within a cell
- Genitalia, male internal See: Male internal genitalia
- Circumcision Circumcision: Surgery that removes the foreskin (the loose tissue) covering the glans of the penis…
- Autoimmune polyendocrinopathy syndrome A genetic autoimmune disease with an extraordinary array of clinical features but characterized most often by…
- Infection, urinary tract (UTI) An infection in the urinary system that begins when microorganisms cling to the opening of the urethra (the…
- Melanoma of the eye See: Intraocular melanoma
- Hyperoxaluria An hereditary disorder that causes a special type of stone to form in the kidney and the urine beginning in…