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Quasidominant
Pattern of inheritance that seems due to a dominant trait but is in fact due to the mating of a person who has a recessive disorder (with two copies of a gene causing the disease) with someone who is an asymptomatic carrier (with one copy…
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Show more- Indirect immunofluorescence assay A laboratory test used to detect antibodies in serum or other body fluid. The specific antibodies are labeled…
- Subacute sclerosing panencephalitis (SSPE) A chronic brain disease of children and adolescents that occurs months to often years after an attack of…
- Asian influenza See: Asian flu
- Vulvodynia, essential A chronic, diffuse, unremitting sensation of burning of the vulva -- (the female external genital organs…
- Auditory tube The tube that runs from the middle ear to the pharynx, also known as the Eustachian tube. The function of…
- Digit, supernumerary An extra finger or toe
- Discharge, breast See: Breast discharge
- Blood dyscrasia Blood disease
- Wrinkling, retinal See: Macular pucker
- Vessel A tube in the body that carries fluids: blood vessels or lymph vessels
- Female external genitalia The external genital organs of the female, comprising the pudendum, clitoris, and female urethra
- Great saphenous vein The larger of the two saphenous veins, the principal veins that run up the leg superficially (near the…