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Cryptography
The encoding and decoding of secret messages. Cryptography in genetics: The term 'cryptography' can be applied to human DNA since the message of life is encoded in DNA. And for eons even the existence of DNA was unknown and the information…
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- Disease, sleeping See: Sleeping disease
- Met Methionine. See also: Amino acid symbols
- Tyrosine An amino acid, one of the 20 building blocks of protein. A nonessential amino acid, tyrosine is produced from…
- Qid (on prescription) A Chinese herb (also called sweet wormwood) from which is extracted the antimalarial agent artemisinin.
- Psoriatic arthritis Psoriatic arthritis: Joint inflammation associated with psoriasis. Psoriatic arthritis is a potentially…
- Calefacient 1. (noun) Anything that warms. 2. (noun) A substance that produces a feeling of warmth when it is applied to…
- Myoglobin The pigment in muscle that carries oxygen.
- Ichthyosis simplex Excessively dry skin with scaling. Also called xeroderma. See: Xeroderma. See also: Ichthyosis vulgaris
- Neonatal mortality rate The number of children dying under 28 days of age divided by the number of live births that year. The…
- Fee for service ): In health care, a payment mechanism in which a provider is paid for each individual service rendered to a…
- Reading frame, open See: Open reading frame