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Leukemia, acute lymphocytic
Abbreviated AML. Also called acute myeloid leukemia or acute nonlymphocytic leukemia (ANLL). A quickly progressive malignant disease in which there are too many immature blood-forming cells in the blood and bone marrow, the cells being…
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Show more- Nervous system, human The sum total of the tissues that record and distribute information within a person, and does so by…
- Varco See: Varco, Richard L.
- Genome, mitochondrial All of the genetic information contained in the chromosome of the mitochondrion, a structure located in the…
- Aphagia Inability to eat. From the Greek prefix 'a-' meaning 'not' + 'phago' meaning 'to eat' + not to eat.
- CB2 See: Cannabinoid receptor 2.
- DSS1 Or Dss1. A small protein important to the process of error-free DNA repair by recombination
- Mouth, dry See: Dry mouth
- Klinefelter syndrome Klinefelter syndrome: A chromosome condition in boys and men that is usually due to 47 chromosomes with XXY…
- Chemo-brain See: Chemobrain
- Myocyte, cardiac See: Cardiac myocyte
- Stockholm syndrome Sudden collapse into unconsciousness due to a disorder of heart rhythm in which there is a slow or absent…
- American Diabetes Association (ADA) The American Diabetes Association (ADA) provides the following introduction: 'The American Diabetes…