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Bile sludge
A mixture of microscopic particulate matter in bile that occurs when particles of material precipitate from bile. (Bile is the fluid that is made by the liver. It is stored in the gallbladder until after a meal when it passes out of the…
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Show more- Cloning, cell The process of producing a group of cells (clones), all genetically identical, from a single ancestor.
- Walleye 1. A dense white opacity (leukoma) of the cornea. 2. Divergent strabismus (exotropia) in which the eye turns…
- Ribosome An RNA molecule that can catalyze its own chemical reactions.
- Fertile Able to conceive and bear offspring.
- Medullary cystic kidney disease, recessive Ssive type: A childhood genetic kidney disease in which there is progressive symmetrical destruction of the…
- Pavlov conditioning The Russian physiologist Ivan Petrovich Pavlov (1848-1936) conditioned dogs to respond in what proved to be a…
- Erythema nodosum Erythema nodosum: An inflammatory reaction deep in the skin characterized by the presence of tender red lumps…
- Hypnic jerk The common normal phenomenon of jerking awake, usually accompanied by a feeling of falling, just as one is…
- Dandy fever An acute mosquito- borne viral illness of sudden onset that usually follows a benign course with headache…
- Dystonia, torsion A form of dystonia known as early-onset torsion dystonia (also called idiopathic or generalized torsion…
- Poliomyelitis An acute and sometimes devastating viral disease. Man is the only natural host for poliovirus. The virus…
- Exercise, isometric Exercise involving muscular contractions without movement of the involved parts of the body. Isometric…