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Anetoderma
An area of slack 'baglike' skin due to a local absence or loss of elastic fibers in the skin. The skin affected by anetoderma often occurs in multiple local areas that typically have distinct borders from normal skin (circumscribed). The…
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Show more- Re-uptake See: Reuptake
- Pediatric UTI See: Urinary tract infection in children
- Thyroid hormone receptor A molecule that receives a thyroid hormone and permits it to dock on the nuclear membrane of a cell. The…
- Adjacent Lying nearby. Related terms include superjacent, subjacent, and circumjacent. From ad-, near + the Latin…
- Glucose tolerance test See: Impaired glucose tolerance.
- Tomography, computerized See: Computerized tomography
- Second degree burn See: Burn, second degree
- Hippocampus An area buried deep in the forebrain that helps regulate emotion and memory. Functionally, the hippocampus is…
- Reverse genetics In classic genetics, the traditional approach was to find a gene product and then try to identify the gene…
- Rickettsialpox A mild infectious disease first observed in New York City caused by Rickettsia akari, transmitted from its…
- Goiter-deafness syndrome See Pendred syndrome
- Karyokinesis During cell division, the process of partition of a cell's nucleus into the daughter cells. See also…