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BSL-1
Biosafety level 1. The lowest level of biosafety, a level that applies to agents that do not ordinarily cause human disease
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- Post Short for postmortem examination (an autopsy)
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- Syndrome, third and fourth pharyngeal pouch See: DiGeorge syndrome
- Fondation Jean Dausset-CEPH The Centre d'Etudes du Polymorphisme Humain (CEPH), an internationally renowned research laboratory created…
- Lingual 1. Having to do with the tongue. 2. Next to the tongue. In dentistry, the tooth surface next to the tongue…
- Pasteur, Louis French chemist and biologist (1822-1895) who invented pasteurization, developed the germ theory, founded the…
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- Varicella rash Rash: Varicella (chickenpox) is characterized by a rash, often the first sign of the disease. The rash of…