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Aromatherapy
A form of alternative and complimentary medicine based on the use of very concentrated 'essential' oils from the flowers, leaves, bark, branches, rind or roots of plants with purported healing properties. In aromatherapy these potent oils…
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- Trichina spiralis Is a parasitic worm that lives in the intestines and causes a serious illness known as trichinosis. The eggs…
- Chromosome map A chromosome (one of the microscopically visible carriers of the genetic material DNA) with its centromere…
- Insinuate In the biomedical sciences, to introduce slowly, through a winding or narrow passage, or by a persistent…
- Diabulimia Patients with type 1 diabetes attempt to control body weight by minimizing insulin dosages. Since insulin…
- Assembly, DNA The process of putting fragments of DNA that have been sequenced into their correct chromosomal positions…
- Knee-jerk Adjective meaning readily predictable to the point of being automatic. Knee-jerk often has a negative…
- Host 1. The organism from which a parasite obtains its nutrition and/or shelter.2. An organism or cell culture in…
- Drip In medical usage, a drip is not a dull, unattractive person but a device for administering a fluid…
- Brain, water on the See: Water on the brain
- Anoscopy Anoscopy is a procedure used to visualize the wall of the anus and lowest portion of the rectum. Anoscopy can…
- ET Street name for alpha-ethyltryptamine