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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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Show more- Vessel, efferent A vessel carrying blood away from the heart. An artery or arteriole
- Anal fissure Anal fissure: Common tear in the anal canal. Anal fissure is a common cause of red blood in the stool.
- Splenic artery A large artery within the abdomen that arises from an arterial vessel called the celiac trunk, which emerges…
- Stress Stress: Forces from the outside world impinging on the individual. Stress is a normal part of life that can…
- Voyeurism Eping Tom'): Voyeurism is a disorder that involves achieving sexual arousal by observing an unsuspecting and…
- Musicotherapy See: Music therapy
- Baby teeth See: Primary teeth
- Gestation period The period of development of the young from the time of conception until birth. For humans the full gestation…
- Syndrome, Timothy See: Timothy syndrome
- Unilateral Having, or relating to, one side. Unilateral is as opposed, for example, to bilateral (which means having, or…
- Polychlorinated biphenyls See: PCBs
- Capsule >In medicine, a membranous structure that envelops an organ, a joint, tumor, or any other part of the body…