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Phosphatase, acid
Acid phosphatase is an enzyme that works under acid conditions and is made in the liver, spleen, bone marrow and the prostate gland. Abnormally high serum levels of the enzyme may, for example, indicate prostate disease (infection, injury…
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- Molecules, recombinant DNA A combination of DNA molecules of different origin that are joined using recombinant DNA technology
- PMLD Pelizaeus-Merzbacher-like disease
- Aspirate To suck in. A patient may aspirate for example by accidentally drawing material from the stomach into the…
- Incontinence Inability to control excretions. Urinary incontinence is inability to keep urine in the bladder. Fecal…
- Medicine, occupational The field of medicine encompassing diseases due to factors in the occupation of people. Occupational medicine…
- Labrocyte A mast cell
- John Hughlings Jackson See: Hughlings Jackson, John
- Perchlorate A chemical used as the primary ingredient of solid rocket propellant and in munitions beginning in the 1950s…
- PAS 1. Physician-assisted suicide. 2. Personal alert system (an alarm system for an elderly or infirm person). 3…
- Pronucleus A cell nucleus with a haploid set of chromosomes (23 chromosomes in humans) resulting from meiosis (germ-cell…
- Fever, Wolhynia Fever, Wolhynia: Also known as trench fever, a disease borne by body lice that was first recognized in the…