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Incontinentia pigmenti
In medicine, the time from the moment of exposure to an infectious agent until signs and symptoms of the disease appear. For example, the incubation period of chickenpox is 14-16 days. In biology, the incubation period is the time needed…
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Show more- Miscarriage, multiple More than one miscarriage for a woman. In multiple miscarriages, there is about a 5 percent chance that one…
- Anal atresia Congenital absence of an opening at the bottom end of the intestinal tract. Also called imperforate anus…
- Therapy, behavior A treatment program that involves substituting desirable behavior responses for undesirable ones
- EMSY A novel protein that connects the familial and sporadic forms of breast cancer and ovarian cancer. Some cases…
- Alveolar proteinosis See: Pulmonary alveolar proteinosis
- Adrenal failure A condition in which the adrenal glands do not produce enough of the adrenal hormones that control important…
- Memory, long-term A system for permanently storing, managing, and retrieving information for later use. Items of information…
- Vaccine, Sabin The oral polio vaccine (OPV) developed by the Polish-born American microbiologist Albert B. Sabin (1906-93)
- PLP1 The gene encoding proteolipid protein, or lipophilin, the primary constituent of myelin. The PLP1 gene is on…
- Multifactorial inheritance The type of hereditary pattern seen when there is more than one genetic factor involved and, sometimes, when…
- Malignant melanoma See: Melanoma
- Mouse, deer See: Deer mouse