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Beard
The hair that normally grows on the male face after puberty. Testosterone, the most potent of the naturally occurring androgens, causes the development of secondary sex features such as the beard that are characteristic of the adult male…
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- Adenoids Masses of lymphoid tissue in the upper part of throat behind the nose.
- Cancer, bladder Cancer of the organ responsible for temporarily holding urine after it leaves the kidneys. The most common…
- Recipient In medicine, a recipient is someone who receives something like a blood transfusion or an organ transplant…
- Histiocytosis, sinus A variant of histiocytosis in which the lymph nodes are the main site of histiocyte proliferation. The…
- Intraductal carcinoma Also called ductal carcinoma in situ. See: DCIS
- SEER program The Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results (SEER) program of the National Cancer Institute (NCI), an…
- Abduction In medicine, the movement of a limb away from the midline of the body. Abduction of both legs spreads the…
- Prusiner, Stanley B. American neurologist (1942-) and winner of the Nobel Prize for the discovery of 'prions - a new biological…
- Toxic hepatitis Hepatitis (inflammation of the liver) caused by an industrial chemical such as carbon tetrachloride or…
- Arthritis, quackery Like many people with chronic ailments, sufferers from arthritis are potentially vulnerable to proponents of…
- Cancer, prostatic Cancer of the gland (prostate) that produces some of the components of semen fluid. The second leading cause…