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- Modeling, chromatin See: Chromatin remodeling
- GSS Gerstmann-Straussler-Scheinker. See: Gerstmann-Straussler-Scheinker syndrome
- Preventive medicine Medicine designed to avert and avoid disease. Screening for hypertension and treating it before it causes…
- Syndrome, Ehlers-Danlos See: Ehlers-Danlos syndrome
- Disease, von Recklinghausen Neurofibromatosis type 1
- Case-fatality percentage See: Case-fatality proportion
- Treacle A medicinal compound once in wide use as an antidote to poisons. Treacle was a kind of salve. It was reputed…
- Fever of Unknown Origin Fever of unknown origin (FUO) is a fever greater than 38.3°C (101 °F) that has occurred intermittently for…
- Human T-lymphotropic virus HTLV. A retrovirus that causes adult T-cell leukemia. HTLV is endemic (constantly present) in southern Japan…
- VCJD Stands for variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease, a human disease thought due to the same infectious agent as…
- Colorectal adenoma and carcinoma 1 Abbreviated CRAC1. Also known as hereditary mixed polyposis syndrome. See: Hereditary mixed polyposis syndrome