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- Ad lib Abbreviation for the Latin 'ad libitum' meaning 'at pleasure' and 'at one's pleasure, as much as one desires…
- Anticoagulant agent A medication used as a 'blood-thinner' to prevent the formation of blood clots and to maintain open blood…
- ALPS Autoimmune lymphoproliferative syndrome
- Forensics, DNA DNA:See: DNA forensics
- Shunt, Blalock-Taussig A pioneering heart operation named after the American surgeon Alfred Blalock (1899-1964) and the pediatric…
- Presenteeism The problem of workers being on the job but, because of medical conditions, not fully functioning. The health…
- PARK10 Familial Parkinson disease type 10
- Adenovirus A group of viruses responsible for a spectrum of respiratory disease as well as infection of the stomach and…
- Angina, Prinzmetal Angina, Prinzmetal: Chest pain due to a coronary artery spasm, a sudden constriction of one of the vessels…
- P in population genetics The frequency of the more common of two different alternative (allelic) versions of a gene. (The frequency of…
- KHM Keratoderma hereditarium mutilans. See: Vohwinkel syndrome