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Variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease
Variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease: Abbreviated vCJD. A human disease thought due to the same infectious agent as bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE), or mad cow disease. Both the human and bovine disorders are invariably fatal brain…
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Show more- Atresia, anal Congenital absence of an opening at the bottom end of the intestinal tract. Also called imperforate anus…
- Winter depression See: Tooth, wisdom.
- Gland, mammary One of the glands within the breast that secrete milk when prompted to do so by special hormones. Mammary…
- MECP2 (methyl-CpG-binding protein-2) An enzyme which, when mutated, results in RTT (Rett syndrome), a genetic disease that is a uniform and…
- Embolus Something that travels through the bloodstream, lodges in a blood vessel and blocks it. Examples of emboli…
- Ambidextrous 1. Able to use both the right and left hands with equal dexterity. Neither right- nor left-handed.2. By…
- EXIT Stands for ex utero intrapartum treatment. Surgery on the fetus may be done after a Cesarean section, but…
- Chiron In Greek mythology, the centaur who, wounded by Hercules, invented medicine in order to heal himself. Chiron…
- CCK Cholecystokinin
- Kostmann disease Children born with this condition lack neutrophils (a type of white blood cell that is important in fighting…
- Glial cell A supportive cell in the central nervous system -- the brain and spinal cord. Glial cells do not conduct…
- Somatic mutation A mutation in a somatic cell, in contrast to a mutation in a germ cell. See also: Acquired mutation.