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Therapy, fever
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- Tuberculosis, drug-resistant Tuberculosis (TB) that does not respond to drug treatment. Drug-resistant TB has become a very serious…
- Internal fixation A surgical procedure that stabilizes and joins the ends of fractured (broken) bones by mechanical devices…
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- Endoplasmic reticulum A structure within cells that is an extension of the nuclear membrane and in which proteins slated to become…
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