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Ginger
Ginger: A perennial tropical herb that has been used as a treatment for nausea and bowel spasms. Ginger may lead to blood thinning. It is therefore best not taken with medications that prevent blood clotting (anticoagulants) such as…
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Show more- Curie (Ci) A unit of radioactivity. (Specifically, the quantity of any radioactive nuclide in which the number of…
- Superfluous Beyond what is sufficient. A sixth finger is superfluous
- Neurogenic Starting with or having to do with the nerves or the nervous system
- Diabetes insipidus Diabetes insipidus: Excessive urination and extreme thirst as a result of inadequate output of the pituitary…
- Vrolik's disease Osteogenesis imperfecta type II, an inherited connective tissue disorder with very severe bone fragility, the…
- Jellyfish sting : The injection into the skin of venom from the stinging unit (the nematocyst) of the jellyfish. The…
- HER2 Abbreviation for human epidermal growth factor receptor 2. HER2 is expressed by, and involved in the growth…
- Chorea, Sydenham's See: Sydenham chorea
- Acute respiratory disease A sudden condition in which breathing is difficult and the oxygen levels in the blood abruptly drop lower…
- Palindromic Pertaining to a palindrome. A DNA sequence that reads the same in both directions is a palindromic sequence
- Sesquipedalian A long polysyllabic word that means having many syllables or using long words, as is all too often the case…
- Reproductive system In women, the organs that are directly involved in producing eggs and in conceiving and carrying babies. In…