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EYCL2
A gene for brown eye color. See also: Eye color
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- TPN Total parenteral nutrition, intravenous feeding that provides a patient with all of the fluid and the…
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- Astigmatism Astigmatism: A common form of visual impairment in which part of an image is blurred, due to an irregularity…
- Syndrome, paraneoplastic See: Paraneoplastic syndrome
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