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- Colorectal Related to the colon and/or rectum
- Beta-defensin See: Defensin
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- Dyscrasia Any disease condition, especially in hematology, as in 'blood dyscrasias.' The term 'dyscrasia' was borrowed…
- Unsaturated fat A fat that is liquid at room temperature and comes from a plant such as olive, peanut, corn, cottonseed…
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- Genome, mustard Arabidopsis thaliana See: Arabidopsis thaliana genome
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- Hidrosis Sweating, the production of perspiration. Hidrosis is the Greek word for sweating