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Biological therapy
Biological therapy: Treatment to stimulate or restore the ability of the immune (defense) system to fight infection and disease. Biological therapy is thus any form of treatment that uses the body's natural abilities that constitute the…
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- Medical school syndrome A form of acute hypochondriasis that affects most people in training to be a physician. For example, when…
- Congenital hemolytic jaundice Jaundice: Known also as hereditary spherocytosis (HS), this is a genetic disorder of the red blood cell…
- Rejection In transplantation biology, the refusal by the body to accept transplanted cells, tissues or organs. For…
- Tamoxifen (Nolvadex) An antiestrogen (a drug that blocks the effects of estrogen) which competes with estrogen for binding sites…
- Fear of new things An irrational fear of anything new, of innovation, of new situations, places, or things. Also called…
- Taenia armata Taenia solium
- Adenomatous polyposis coli, autosomal recessive See: MYH
- Tibia vara Improper growth of the tibia in the leg, causing bowlegs or other leg problems. The tibia may bow anteriorly…
- Shin spot A light brown or reddish oval or round scaly patch on the skin of the shin. Shin spots can be due to…
- Adenine (A) One member of the A-T (adenine-thymine) base pair in DNA. The other base pair in DNA is G-C…