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Cardiovascular
The circulatory system comprising the heart and blood vessels which carries nutrients and oxygen to the tissues of the body and removes carbon dioxide and other wastes from them. Cardiovascular diseases affect the heart and blood vessels…
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- Intolerance, lactose The inability to digest lactose, a sugar component of milk and most other dairy products. Lactose is…
- Snellen's test type The letters on the familiar eye chart used to measure how well you see at various distances. The eye chart…
- Genetic transformation A process by which the genetic material carried by an individual cell is altered by the incorporation of…
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- Staphylococcal infection Infection with one of the Staphylococcal bacteria. Staph infection can cause pus-filled abscesses on the skin…
- Medication, antiviral An drug that kills viruses or suppresses their replication and, hence, inhibits their capability to multiply…