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Nutrigenomics
The study of how different foods may interact with specific genes to increase the risk of common chronic diseases such as type 2 diabetes, obesity, heart disease, stroke and certain cancers. Nutrigenomics also seeks to provide a molecular…
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- Pubarche Just as menarche means the time when menstruation begins, pubarche indicates when pubic hair begins.
- Achromatopsia An hereditary disorder of sight due to a lack of cone vision - that type of vision provided by the cone…
- Danlos syndrome Better known today as Ehlers-Danlos syndrome (EDS), this is an inherited disorder with easy bruising, joint…
- Peroneal muscular atrophy See: Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease
- Gerstmann-Straussler-Scheinker syndrome A rare familial form of progressive dementia inherited in an autosomal dominant manner due to a mutant prion…
- BSA In medicine, not the Boy Scouts of America but the body surface area
- Burp 1. Gas brought up from the stomach through the mouth producing a gutteral noise.2. As a verb, to bring up gas…
- In vitro Literally in glass, as in a test tube. A test that is performed in vitro is one that is done in glass or…
- Hospice care Care designed to give supportive care to people in the final phase of a terminal illness and focus on comfort…
- Anthrax immunization Anthrax immunization: A series of six shots over six months and booster shots annually, the anthrax vaccine…
- Roentgen An international unit of X-radiation or gamma-radiation. Abbreviated R. Named for Wilhelm Roentgen