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Disease, Minamata
A disorder caused by methyl mercury poisoning that was first described in the inhabitants of Minamata Bay, Japan. Minamata disease resulted from their eating fish contaminated with mercury industrial waste. The disease is characterized by…
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- Methionine An amino acid, one of the 20 building blocks of protein. A dietary essential amino acid, methionine provides…
- Reporting, unique identifier In public health, a system that uses information such as the person's birth date and part of their…
- Cryotherapy Cryotherapy: Literally, 'cold therapy.' Cryotherapy, sometimes referred to as cryosurgery, is a procedure…
- Dehydroepiandrosterone DHEA. A steroid hormone made by the adrenal glands that acts on the body much like testosterone and is…
- Dyspraxia Impaired or painful function of any organ of the body
- C3 (cervical vertebra) The third cervical (neck) vertebra from the top
- American Association for Advancement of Science Spoken of as the 'triple-AS', the American Association for the Advancement of Science is an organization…
- Melanoma, intraocular See: Intraocular melanoma
- Postmaturity Overly mature, overly developed, especially as regards a baby. A baby born 2 weeks (14 days) or more after…
- Y. pestis Yersinia pestis, the bacteria that causes the bubonic plague which in the year 541 (as the Black Death) and…
- Cardiomyopathy, hypertrophic Heart disease. A nonspecific term applicable to any and all diseases of the heart. From cardio- + the Greek…