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Immunocompetent
Able to develop an immune response. Able to recognize antigens and respond to them. The opposite of immunodeficient
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- Study, linkage A study aimed at establishing linkage between genes. Linkage is the tendency for genes and other genetic…
- Axillary Pertaining to the cavity beneath the junction of the arm and the body, better known as the armpit. The word…
- Quackery Deliberate misrepresentation of the ability of a substance or device for the prevention or treatment of…
- Age by decade >Denarian: Someone age 10 to 19. >Vicenarian: Someone in his or her twenties. >Tricenarian: Someone in his or…
- Vitamin B3 Vitamin B3 is niacin. Deficiency of niacin causes pellagra. Pellagra was known as the 'disease of the four…
- Syphilis, congenital The third stage of syphilis, in which the syphilis spirochetes infect the brain and other organs of the body…
- PDA Patent ductus arteriosus
- REM sleep Sleep: REM sleep is the portion of sleep when there are rapid eye movements (REMs). Dreams occur during REM…
- Colporrhaphy Surgical repair of the vagina. The -rrhaphy part of the word comes from the Greek raphe meaning suture
- Madelung disease A disorder characterized by painless symmetrical diffuse deposits of fat beneath the skin of the neck, upper…