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Shingle
In medicine, a small signboard outside the office of a doctor. The term has nothing to do with the disease shingles
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- Carcinogenic Causing cancer or contributing to the causation of cancer. Pertaining to a carcinogen
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- Rale A type of abnormal lung sound heard through a stethoscope. Rales may be sibilant (whistling), dry (crackling)…
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- Salmonella genome The entire genetic complement (the DNA) of Salmonella bacteria. The genomes of two strains of Salmonella…
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