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Marshall-Smith syndrome
A disorder characterized by advanced bone age at birth, broad forehead, prominent eyes, and small chin. There is difficulty feeding, failure to thrive, retarded psychomotor development, and predisposition to respiratory infection. It may…
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- Linkage The tendency for genes and other genetic markers to be inherited together because of their location near one…
- Population, study See: Study population
- ORS 1. Oral rehydration salts. 2. Oral rehydration solution. 3. Orthopaedic Research Society
- Kinetics Kinetics (with an 's' at the end) refers to the rate of change in a biochemical (or other) reaction, the…
- Kiddie-cam See: Kiddie cam
- Proclivity An inclination or predisposition toward something, especially a strong inherent inclination toward something…
- Olivary Pertaining to the olive, a structure in the brain
- Virus, human lymphotropic, type III Another name for the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), the cause of AIDS. Please see: Virus, human…
- Microchimerism The presence of two genetically distinct and separately derived populations of cells, one population being at…
- Extracolonic Outside the colon. An hereditary colon cancer syndrome may also predispose to extracolonic malignancies
- Psychooncology See: Psycho-oncology.