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Genome, bovine
See: Bovine genome
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- Vitamin B3 Vitamin B3 is niacin. Deficiency of niacin causes pellagra. Pellagra was known as the 'disease of the four…
- Medication, antiviral An drug that kills viruses or suppresses their replication and, hence, inhibits their capability to multiply…
- Incontinence, urge A sudden involuntary contraction of the muscular wall of the bladder causing urinary urgency, an immediate…
- Axillary Pertaining to the cavity beneath the junction of the arm and the body, better known as the armpit. The word…
- Hereditary mixed polyposis syndrome (HMPS) A cancer family syndrome characterized by the development of a variety of different types of polyps in…
- Multifocal Having to do with two or more foci or arising from two or more places. For example, aortic aneurysm disease…
- Akinetic Without movement (or without much movement). A term used in neurology to denote the absence (or poverty) of…
- SCID Severe combined immunodeficiency disease
- Blister, blood A blister full of blood due to a pinch, bruise or repeated friction. A blister is medically termed a vesicle…
- Labium A lip. Labium is the singular of the Latin neuter noun meaning lip. The plural is labia. For more…