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Gallus gallus
The Red Jungle Fowl, the ancestor of domestic chickens
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Show more- Primary First or foremost in time or development. The primary teeth (the baby teeth) are those that come first…
- Resuscitate To restore to life. Derived from the Latin resuscitare, to reawaken
- Nyctalopia Night blindness, impaired vision in dim light and in the dark, due to impaired function of certain…
- Watson See: Watson, James
- Typhus, louse-borne See: Typhus, epidemic
- In-law A relative by marriage. An in-law is not a biologic relative. This distinction is of importance in a medical…
- Gland, Cowper's See: Bulbourethral gland
- International AIDS Vaccine Initiative See: IAVI
- Glaucoma, angle-closure Glaucoma, angle-closure: Increased pressure in the front chamber (anterior chamber) of the eye due to sudden…
- Medicine, homeopathic See: Homeopathy
- Boutonneuse Fievre boutonneuse or African tick typhus, one of the tick-borne rickettsial diseases of the eastern…
- GOLD The Global Initiative for Chronic Obstructive Lung Disease (GOLD), a collaborative project of the US National…