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Pharmacogenetics
The merger of pharmacology and genetics into a field that pertains to the hereditary responses to drugs. For example, after the administration of a muscle relaxant drug, a patient may remain apneic for hours due to a genetically determined…
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Show more- Syndrome, respiratory distress (RDS) Formerly known as hyaline membrane disease, a syndrome of respiratory difficulty in newborn infants caused by…
- LaMontagne See: La Montagne, John
- Screening mammogram Mammogram: A mammogram (an X-ray of the breast) in women who have no signs of breast cancer. It usually…
- Dressler syndrome Pericarditis (inflammation of the pericardium, the sac-like covering of the heart) after a heart attack…
- Lymphogranuloma venereum Abbreviated LGV. An uncommon genital or anorectal (affecting the anus and/or rectum) infection that is caused…
- TACE Transarterial chemoembolization, a procedure in which the blood supply to a tumor is blocked (embolized) and…
- Spinous process A slender projection from the back of a vertebra to which muscles and ligaments are attached
- Vaccination Injection of a killed microbe in order to stimulate the immune system against the microbe, thereby preventing…
- Fetal mortality rate The ratio of fetal deaths divided by the sum of the births (the live births + the fetal deaths) in that year…
- Dorothy Hodgkin See: Hodgkin, Dorothy
- Virus, Marburg See: Negative-strand RNA virus.
- Trait In genetics, a trait refers to any genetically determined characteristic. In technical terms, a genetic trait…