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The most complete online medical dictionary: 16,436 terms covering anatomy, physiology, pathologies, diagnostic exams, pharmacology and every clinical specialty.
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Show more- Assembly and budding A portion of the processes by which new HIV is formed in infected host cells. Viral core proteins, enzymes…
- Ejection fraction The portion of blood that is pumped out of a filled ventricle as a result of a heartbeat. The heart does not…
- CWD Chronic wasting disease
- Martinus W. Beijerinck See: Beijerinck, Martinus W.
- SGA Small for gestational age. SGA infants weigh 2500 g or less at birth and are considered to have intrauterine…
- Balanoposthitis In the uncircumcised male, balanitis (inflammation of the glans, the rounded head of the penis) and posthitis…
- Neonatal sepsis A serious blood bacterial infection in an infant less than 4 weeks of age. Babies with sepsis may be…
- Guillain-Barre syndrome See: Guillain-Barré syndrome.
- Human Genome Research Institute, National RI): One of the newest of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), NHGRI's mission in formal terms is to…
- Diabulimia Patients with type 1 diabetes attempt to control body weight by minimizing insulin dosages. Since insulin…
- Memory, implicit See: Implicit memory
- Mycobacterium tuberculosis The bacterium that causes tuberculosis. M. tuberculosis has unusually waxy walls, is slow-growing and among…