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- Balance A biological system that enables us to know where our bodies are in the environment and to maintain a desired…
- Enteral Pertaining to the small intestine. As in enteral nutrition. Also called enteric
- Oil, tropical Coconut, palm kernel or palm oil. Like all fats and oils, these three oils contain various types of fatty…
- Cousin marriage Marriage involving cousins. Everyone carries rare recessive alleles, rare genes that are generally innocuous…
- Prader-Willi syndrome Prader-Willi syndrome: A syndrome characterized by severe hypotonia (floppiness), poor suck and feeding…
- Dwarfism, thanatophoric A form of short-limbed (micromelic) dwarfism that usually causes death within the first few hours after…
- Polygenic Pertaining to two or more genes. As opposed to monogenic. Eye color is polygenic. It is by determined by a…
- Transurethral resection Surgery performed with a special instrument inserted through the urethra. Also called TUR
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