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Extremity
The extremities in medical language are not freezing cold or scorching heat but rather the uttermost parts of the body. The extremities are simply the hands and feet. The use of 'extremity' to mean a hand or foot is quite ancient…
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Show more- Angiogenesis The process of developing new blood vessels. Angiogenesis is important in the normal development of the…
- Atopy The genetic tendency to develop the classic allergic diseases -- atopic dermatitis, allergic rhinitis (hay…
- Connexin A subunit of connexon, a protein that forms a gap junction, a channel that permits ions and small molecules…
- Quiescent Marked by a state of inactivity, repose, or tranquillity. For example, a quiescent stem cell is a stem cell…
- Retinopathy, diabetic See: Diabetic retinopathy
- Pyrimidine One of the two classes of bases in DNA and RNA. The pyrimidine bases are thymine (T) and cytosine (C) in DNA…
- Syndrome, trisomy 21 A common chromosome disorder, often called Down syndrome, due to an extra chromosome number 21 (trisomy 21)…
- Paterson-Kelly syndrome See: Plummer-Vinson syndrome
- Pediatric kidney infection See: Urinary tract infection in children
- Stepmother The wife of a man who had a child by another women. See: Novercal
- Therapy The treatment of disease. Therapy is synonymous with treatment, as for example: > >Antiretroviral therapy…
- Plague, sylvatic Plague that is spread by ground squirrels and other wild rodents, for example, in the western portion of the…