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Food irradiation
A food safety technology designed to eliminate disease-causing germs from foods. Treating food with ionizing radiation can kill bacteria and parasites that would otherwise cause foodborne disease. Similar technology is used to sterilize…
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Show more- Urological surgeon A physician who specializes in diseases of the urinary organs in females and the urinary tract and sex organs…
- Single palmar flexion line Simian crease
- Deficiency, alpha-1 antitrypsin See: Alpha-1 antitrypsin deficiency
- Cardiac transplant See: Heart transplant
- Disease, Jakob-Creutzfeldt A transmissible degenerative brain disorder technically termed spongiform encephalopathy. Eating 'mad cow'…
- Migraine, common See: Common migraine
- Alkalosis A dangerous decrease in the normal acidity of the blood. There is too much base in the blood and body. This…
- Agenesis, sacral Failure of formation of all or part of the sacrum (the lowest section of the spine). Currarino syndrome is a…
- Typhus, scrub A mite-borne infectious disease caused by a microorganism, Rickettsia tsutsugamushi, characteristically with…
- Actinomycetes A group of gram-positive bacteria (order Actinomycetales) that produce various bioactive agents including…
- SGOT Serum glutamic oxaloacetic transaminase, an enzyme that is normally present in liver and heart cells. SGOT is…
- Idiot savant See: Autistic savant. The term 'autistic savant' is preferred to the old term 'idiot savant' as less…