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Buschke's scleredema
E: Scleredema
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- Memory, long-term A system for permanently storing, managing, and retrieving information for later use. Items of information…
- Thyroid binding globulin A blood protein that binds with the thyroid hormone thyroxine (T4).
- Diastrophic dysplasia An inherited skeletal disorder involving significantly short stature (dwarfism). Characteristic features at…
- Interneuron A neuron that exclusively signals another neuron
- Automatic behavior A behavior that is performed without conscious knowledge and that does not appear to be under conscious…
- Paul C. Lauterbur See: Lauterbur, Paul C.
- Skin graft, full-thickness A graft technique in which sheets of skin containing both the epidermis and the dermis are used
- Hereditary ALS See: Familial ALS
- Cardiovascular system The circulatory system which comprises the heart and blood vessels. The system carries nutrients and oxygen…
- Ragged red fibers with CPEO See: Kearns-Sayre syndrome
- Erythrocyte A cell that contains hemoglobin and can carry oxygen to the body. Also called a red blood cell (RBC). The…