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Verbal child abuse
Child abuse: Also known as emotional child abuse, this is the third most frequently reported form of child abuse (after child neglect and physical child abuse), accounting 17% of all cases of child abuse. It is likely that emotional child…
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Show more- Ingelfinger rule The policy of considering a manuscript for publication only if its substance has not been submitted or…
- Genome, bee See: Honey bee genome
- Expressivity The consistency of a genetic disease. For example, Marfan disease shows variable expressivity. Some persons…
- Syndrome, nail-patella See Nail-patella syndrome
- Time, prothrombin A clotting test, the prothrombin time is done to test the integrity of part of the clotting scheme. The…
- Automatism An unconscious movement that may resemble simple repetitive tics or may be a complex sequence of…
- Antisense In molecular biology, the strand complementary to a coding sequence of a nucleic acid. Antisense DNA is the…
- Megacolon An abnormally enlarged colon.
- Nerve, vestibulocochlear A nerve that is responsible for the sense of hearing and which is also pertinent to balance, to the body…
- Dopamine An important neurotransmitter (messenger) in the brain. Dopamine is classified as a catecholamine (a class of…
- Mastectomy, radical Removal of all breast tissue, from just under the collar bone to the abdomen, including the chest wall…
- Crick 1. A painful sudden spasmodic stiffness in the muscles of the neck or back. 2. Francis Crick who, with James…