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Benzene
A sweet smelling, highly toxic hydrocarbon. Long-term exposure to benzene is known to cause anemia and leukemia. The anemia associated with benzene exposure is termed aplastic anemia. The types of leukemia associated with benzene exposure…
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- Palpable Something that can be felt or touched. For example, a palpable tumor is one that can be felt. From the Latin…
- Headache, rebound Headaches experienced by those who have taken ergotamine or analgesic medications for migraines or other…
- Tube, Eustachian The tube that runs from the middle ear to the pharynx. The function of the Eustachian tube is to protect…
- Sabin, Florence R. Sandy or gritty. For example, the sludge in bile may be sabulous. And the stony sediment in urine may be…
- Lethal Deadly, fatal, capable of causing death, death-dealing. The word 'lethal' comes from the Latin 'letum'…
- Natural family planning Also known as fertility awareness, periodic abstinence and the rhythm method, this approach entails not…
- Meiotic nondisjunction Failure of two members of a chromosome pair to separate (disjoin) during meiosis so that both go to one…
- Paralysis, facial nerve Loss of voluntary movement of the muscles on one side of the face due to abnormal function of the facial…
- Intelligence test A questionnaire or series of exercises designed to measure intelligence. It is generally understood that…
- Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis 7 ALS7. A form of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) inherited in an autosomal dominant manner due to mutation…
- Melanoma Melanoma: The most dangerous form of skin cancer, a malignancy of the melanocyte, the cell that produces…