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Tandem repeat sequences
Multiple copies of the same DNA base sequence on a chromosome; used as a marker in physical mapping of the chromosome
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- Pneumonectomy An operation to remove an entire lung or part of a lung
- Glossopharyngeal nerve The glossopharyngeal nerve is the ninth cranial nerve. The 12 cranial nerves, the glossopharyngeal nerve…
- Terminal ileitis Crohn's disease, a chronic inflammatory disease of the intestine involving only the end of the small…
- Giant intestinal fluke Fasciolopsis buski. See: Fasciolopsis
- Interstitial Pertaining to being between things, especially between things that are normally closely spaced. The word…
- Vertebrae, sacral There are 5 sacral vertebral bones. They are represented by the symbols S1 through S5 and are situated…
- Prostatic hyperplasia, benign See: Benign prostatic hyperplasia.
- Sideropenic dysphagia See: Plummer-Vinson syndrome
- Chain-termination codon A set of three adjacent bases in the DNA or their complementary bases in messenger RNA that specifies the end…