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Polyploid
Three or more full sets of chromosomes. A polyploid brain tumor cell might for example have 69 or 92 chromosomes.
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- Buschke's scleredema E: Scleredema
- Hemangioma, hepatic A common benign tumor of the liver made up of small blood vessels. Hepatic hemangioma is the most common…
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- Geriatric medicine The branch of medicine concerned with the diagnosis, treatment and prevention of disease in older people and…
- Menetrier's disease See: Giant hypertrophic gastritis
- Metaphase (cell cycle) The stage in the cell cycle (the sequence of events in the life of a cell) when a chromosome is most highly…
- Schonlein-Henoch purpura A form of blood vessel inflammation (vasculitis) that typically affects small arterial vessels (capillaries)…