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- AAAS Spoken of as the 'triple-AS', the American Association for the Advancement of Science is an organization…
- Agranulocytosis, infantile genetic Children born with this condition lack neutrophils (a type of white blood cell that is important in fighting…
- Event A set of outcomes. Cardiovascular events might include a heart attack and gastrointestinal events a GI bleed…
- Perry syndrome A familial form of Parkinson disease together with depression, weight loss and central hypoventilation in…
- Cranial nerve IV The fourth cranial nerve, the trochlear nerve, is the nerve supply to the superior oblique muscle of the eye…
- Cytomegalovirus (CMV) A virus that infects 50-85% of adults in the US by age 40 and is also the virus most frequently transmitted…
- Magnetic resonance imaging Magnetic resonance imaging: A special radiology technique designed to image internal structures of the body…
- Restenosis Renarrowing, as in restenosis of a coronary artery after angioplasty. From the Greek 'stenos' meaning narrow
- Ovarian cancer test CA 125 See: CA 125
- Parkinson disease gene A gene involved in the causation of Parkinson disease. There are a number of different autosomal dominant and…
- Patellar ligament See: Patellar tendon