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Senile
1. Pertaining to old age. 2. Pertaining to the physical decline associated with old age. 3. Pertaining to the mental decline once associated with old age but now known to be due to dementia, such as Alzheimer's disease or cerebral…
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- Immune system A complex system that is responsible for distinguishing us from everything foreign to us, and for protecting…
- Alexander technique A process that teaches how to properly coordinate body and mind to release harmful tension and to improve…
- Practice, family The medical specialty which provides continuing and comprehensive health care for the individual and family…
- Piperine A pungent alkaloid that is concentrated in the outer skin of pepper berries (which gives pepper much of its…
- Polygenic Pertaining to two or more genes. As opposed to monogenic. Eye color is polygenic. It is by determined by a…
- Regulatory gene A gene that regulates the expression of other genes. A regulatory gene is a nosy gene whose prime…
- Acid, trans fatty An unhealthy substance, also known as trans fat, made through the chemical process of hydrogenation of oils…
- Zygomycosis A dangerous infection caused by a water-borne fungus. Zygomycosis is seen most often in patients who are…
- Love pearls Street name for alpha-ethyltryptamine
- Thigh bone The thigh bone in anatomy is called the 'femur.' Whichever term you care to use -- thigh bone or femur, it is…
- Gorlin syndrome II Name sometimes used for the LEOPARD syndrome which Dr. Robert J. Gorlin and colleagues recognized and…