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Virus, lymphadenopathy-associated
Another name for the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), the cause of AIDS. Please see: Virus, human immunodeficiency.
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- Hemidesmosome A specialised structure that attaches an epithelial cell to the basement membrane beneath it
- Heterochromatin, facultative Heterochromatin that need not always be heterochromatic but which has the faculty to return to the normal…
- NIH A genetic disease named for the city of Nijmegen (in The Netherlands) with increased chromosome breakage…
- Torture An act by which severe pain or suffering, whether physical or mental, is intentionally inflicted on a person…
- Skin graft, autogenic A graft using the patient's own skin. Also known as an autologous graft.
- Tuberculosis, miliary The presence of numerous sites of tuberculosis infection each of which is minute, due to dissemination of…
- Pleural Pertaining to the pleura, the thin covering that protects the lungs. The term 'pleural' is pronounced like…
- Sensory Relating to sensation, to the perception of a stimulus and the voyage made by incoming (afferent) nerve…