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Culture
A culture is the propagation of microorganisms in a growth media. Any body tissue or fluid can be evaluated in the laboratory by culture techniques in order to detect and identify infectious processes. Culture techniques also be used to…
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Show more- Mind That which thinks, reasons, perceives, wills, and feels. The mind now appears in no way separate from the…
- Poland syndrome Poland syndrome: A developmental disorder of the chest wall involving a unique pattern of one-sided…
- Kidney cancer Kidney cancer: Malignancy of the kidney, the organ that is primarily responsible for the removal of metabolic…
- Deficiency, iron The most common known form of nutritional disorder in the world, iron deficiency results in anemia because…
- Serratus One of several muscles of the back and thorax. that have interdigitating slips that ressemble the notches on…
- Hemophobia An abnormal and persistent fear of blood. Sufferers of this very common phobia dread the sight of their own…
- Paraoxonase An enzyme associated with high-density lipoprotein (HDL) that is believed to protect against the oxidation of…
- Bone, shin The larger of the two bones in the lower leg (the smaller one being the fibula). The shin bone is…
- Neuralgia, migrainous A distinctive syndrome of headaches, today better known as cluster headache. There are two main clinical…
- Overload, iron Iron overload can damage the heart, liver, gonads and other organs. Iron overload is a particular risk for: >…
- Visual evoked response VER. A type of electrophysiologic retinal testing done to measure the electrical potential resulting from a…
- Change, single base A change in which a single base in the DNA differs from the usual base at that position. These single base…