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Mimesis
Imitation or mimicry. Mimesis in medicine refers to the hysterical simulation of organic disease and to the imitation of one organic disease by another. Mimesis in aesthetic or artistic theory refers to the attempt to imitate or reproduce…
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- Code The genetic code is the correspondence between the triplet of bases in DNA with the amino acids. The…
- Tic A repetitive movement that is difficult, if not impossible, to control. Tics can affect any group of muscles…
- Coronal A coronal plane through the body is a vertical plane from head to foot and parallel to the shoulders
- Fred L. Soper See: Soper, Fred L.
- Cidal Suffix indicating killing, as in bacteriocidal (capable of killing bacteria) and in suicidal (the killing of…
- Fragile site A term devised in 1969 by Frederick Hecht to denote a heritable point on a chromosome where gaps and breaks…
- Pacemaker, internal A device that uses electrical impulses to regulate the heart rhythm or to reproduce that rhythm. An internal…
- Nature (journal) The name of a venerable British scientific journal that has over the past century or so published much of…
- Zoonotic disease Any disease that is spread from animals to people. There are many known zoonotic diseases, some of them very…
- Paralytic ileus Paralysis of the intestine. To be termed 'paralytic ileus,' the intestinal paralysis need not be complete…
- Variolation The old practice of inoculating someone with the virus of smallpox to produce immunity to the disease. Lady…