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Implicit memory
Memory characterized by a lack of conscious awareness in the act of recollection. By contrast, explicit memory requires conscious recollection of previous experience. Implicit memory may survive largely unimpaired at the same time as a…
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- Asp Aspartic acid. See also: Amino acid symbols
- HIV Acronym for the Human Immunodeficiency Virus, the cause of AIDS (acquired immunodeficiency syndrome). HIV has…
- Anemia and triphalangeal thumbs See: Aase-Smith syndrome II
- Syndrome, Lennox-Gastaut A severe form of epilepsy that usually begins in early childhood and is characterized by frequent seizures of…
- Elidel Brand name of pimecrolimus
- Palsy, laryngeal Paralysis of the recurrent laryngeal nerve, a branch of the vagus nerve (a long and important nerve that…
- Rh factor An antigen found in the red blood cells of most people: those who have Rh factor are said to be Rh positive…
- Arthr- See: Arthro-
- Childhood translocation 11 leukemia A new type of childhood leukemia in which a piece of chromosome 11 has been translocated (broken off and…
- Schistosoma japonicum A species of trematode worm that parasitizes humans and that (like S. mansoni) causes liver and…
- Childbirth fever Fever due to an infection usually of the placental site within the uterus. The fever is also called childbed…