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- Hapten In immunology, a molecule that is incapable, alone, of causing the production of antibodies but which can do…
- CPEO with ragged-red fibers See: Kearns-Sayre syndrome
- Tartar Tartar is the hardened product of longstanding plaque accumulating minerals from the saliva and foods. Plaque…
- Bulbar Pertaining to a bulb, in medicine any rounded mass of tissue (that is shaped somewhat like a crocus or tulip…
- Pain, abdominal See: Abdominal pain
- T4 Thyroxine, a thyroid hormone. The number 4 is sometimes in subscript
- Mutilating keratoderma See: Vohwinkel syndrome
- Papillomatosis, recurrent respiratory Recurrent respiratory papillomatosis involves the growth of numerous warty growths in the larynx on the vocal…
- Human kinome See Kinome
- Parietal Adjective from the Latin 'parietalis' meaning 'belonging to the wall' that the ancient anatomists used to…
- Hypochondriacal neurosis See: Hypochondriasis