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Radioallergosorbent test
An allergy test done on a sample of blood. The test is used to check for allergic sensitivity to specific substances. In the test, the sample of blood is mixed with substances known to trigger allergies. The test measures the level of…
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Show more- Prenatal care During pregnancy, women should receive regular health care from an obstetrician or midwife. Services needed…
- B variant GM2-gangliosidosis See: Tay-Sachs disease
- Hydrogen cyanide See: Cyanide
- Crime scene investigation The use of physical evidence at the scene of the crime and the use of deductive and inductive reasoning to…
- Emetophobia An abnormal and persistent fear of vomiting. Sufferers of emetophobia experience undue anxiety even though…
- Abiological See: Abiotic
- Activities of daily living (ADLs) The things we normally do in daily living including any daily activity we perform for self-care (such as…
- Syndrome, TMJ Disorder of the temporo-mandibular joint (TMJ) causing pain usually in front of the ear. Pain in the TMJ can…
- Intracorporeal Within the body or any structure anatomically called the corpus. For example, when men with erectile…
- Pelizaeus-Merzbacher disease A disease that is virtually identical to Pelizaeus-Merzbacher disease (PMD) but without a mutation in the…
- Roach-2 Or roaches. Street term for Rohypnol
- Schwartz-Jampel syndrome The largest nerve in the body, the sciatic nerve begins from nerve roots in the lumbar part of the spinal…