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- Child neglect Child neglect is the most frequently reported form of child abuse (60% of all cases) and the most lethal…
- Sixth disease A viral disease of infants and young children with sudden onset of high fever which lasts several days and…
- Race An ethnic stock or division of humans. Naturalists and ethnographers have long divided humans into a variable…
- Gigantism Excessive growth both in height and specific body parts. Gigantism with extreme height may be associated with…
- Insufficiency, pulmonary See: Pulmonary insufficiency
- Kilobase Unit of length of DNA equal to 1000 nucleotide bases
- Congenital stationary night blindness An inherited eye disorder that is not progressive ('stationary') and principally affects the rod…
- Alpha-galactosidase A deficiency See: Fabry disease
- Lipoprotein A complex of lipid and protein, the way lipids travel in the blood. Cholesterol, a building block of the…