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DHRD
Doyne honeycomb retinal dystrophy, an eye disease also known as malattia leventinese. See: Malattia leventinese
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- Bovine Having to do with cows and cattle, as in bovine spongiform encephalopathy (mad cow disease), bovine…
- Biopsy, sentinel-lymph-node See: Sentinel lymph node biopsy
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- Orthopox The family of viruses to which belongs vaccinia, the virus that causes smallpox. Other members of the…
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- Vaccination, rubella See Immunization, MMR.
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- Cervical vertebra, second The second cervical vertebra is called the axis. It is so-named because the uppermost cervical vertebra…