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Syndrome, renal, with hemorrhagic fever
A number of diseases, also known as hemorrhagic fever, characterized by an abrupt onset of high fever and chills, headache, cold and cough, and pain in the muscles, joints and abdomen with nausea and vomiting followed by bleeding into the…
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- Skin color The color of skin which is complexly determined. Skin color depends on many factors including reddening…
- Base excision repair A process of DNA repair in which an altered base is excised (removed) by a DNA glycosylase enzyme, followed…
- Yersiniosis An infectious disease caused by a bacterium called Yersinia enterocolitica (and, less often, other forms of…
- Genetic transport defect Within the body, many molecules are able to pass across the membranes that surround cells. These molecules…
- Cardiac arrest A medical emergency with absent or inadequate contraction of the left ventricle of the heart that immediately…