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Disease, new variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob
Abbreviated nvCJD. A human disease thought due to the same infectious agent as bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE), or mad cow disease. Both the human and bovine disorders are invariably fatal brain diseases with unusually long…
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- Formalin A 37% aqueous (water) solution of formaldehyde, a pungent gas, with the chemical formula HCHO, used as an…
- X chromosome A sex chromosome found in both females and males. Normal females usually have two X chromosomes. Normal males…
- Restenosis Renarrowing, as in restenosis of a coronary artery after angioplasty. From the Greek 'stenos' meaning narrow
- Biological safety level 1 Level 1 biosafety
- Syndrome, sicca An autoimmune diseases, also known as Sjogren syndrome, that classically combines dry eyes, dry mouth, and…
- Kiddiecam See: Kiddie cam
- Injury, scooter See: Scooter injury
- Iatrogenic Due to the action of a physician or a therapy the doctor prescibed. An iatrogenic disease may be…
- Myocardial bridge Literally a bridging of heart muscle over one of the major arteries to the heart (usually the left anterior…
- Annotation In genetics, the process of identifying the locations and coding regions of genes in a genome and determining…
- Benign Not cancer. Not malignant. A benign tumor does not invade surrounding tissue or spread to other parts of the…