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Acid, bile
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- Consanguinity Blood relationship because of common ancestry. Everyone carries rare recessive alleles, rare genes that are…
- Excisional Pertaining to the act of excision, of removal by surgery. An excisional biopsy is one in which the lesion is…
- Bicycle helmet A well-known but often neglected device designed to protect the head of a bicyclist. Helmets decrease the…
- Parasitic worm A worm classified as a parasite. (A parasite is a disease-causing organism that lives on or in a human or…
- Epistaxis Medical term for nosebleed. The nose is a part of the body that is very rich in blood vessels (vascular) and…
- Influenza, Asian See: Asian flu
- Postural Pertaining to the posture or position of the body, the attitude or carriage of the body as a whole, or the…
- Catalyst A substance that speeds up a chemical reaction but is not consumed or altered in the process. Catalysts are…
- Viral Of or pertaining to a virus. For example, 'My daughter has a viral rash.
- Connectionism >An input device receiving signals from the environment or from other neurons, >An integrative device…