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Headache, sinus
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Show more- Nature (journal) The name of a venerable British scientific journal that has over the past century or so published much of…
- Interleukin-3 A protein that stimulates the immune system to develop mast cells and bone-marrow cells. Abbreviated IL-3
- Typhus One of a group of acute infections caused by rickettsiae, transmitted by arthropods (lice, fleas, mites), and…
- Bioinformatics The sum of the computational approaches to analyze, manage, and store biological data. Bioinformatics…
- Dysplasia, thanatophoric A form of short-limbed (micromelic) dwarfism that usually causes death within the first few hours after…
- Mumps in pregnancy Mumps vaccination is not recommended during or shortly before pregnancy because it is a live attenuated…
- Mapping Charting the location of genes on chromosomes.
- Suicide, physician-assisted See: Physician-assisted suicide
- Meningomyelocele Protrusion of the membranes that cover the spine but some of the spinal cord itself through a defect in the…
- Shock, septic Shock caused by infection. See also septicemia.
- Pain, abdominal See: Abdominal pain
- Patho- Pathology, with emphasis on the pathophysiological and pathogenetic mechanisms underlying human disease.