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- Cross training Doing two or more aerobic activities such as jogging, bicycling, and swimming on a regular basis
- Syndrome, Alport See: Alport syndrome
- Matter, gray The cortex of the brain which contains nerve cell bodies. The gray matter is as opposed to the white matter…
- Gorlin syndrome Name sometimes used for the LEOPARD syndrome which Dr. Robert J. Gorlin and colleagues recognized and…
- Disease, manic-depressive See Manic-depression
- Point, McBurney's McBurney's point is the most tender area of the abdomen of patients in the early stage of appendicitis…
- Topoisomerase A class of enzymes that alter the supercoiling of double-stranded DNA. (In supercoiling the DNA molecule…
- Adductor muscle Any muscle that pulls a body part toward the midline. For example, the adductor muscles of the legs pull the…
- Endodermal Pertaining to the endoderm or to tissues derived from the endoderm
- Pneumocystis jiroveci See: Pneumocystis