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Adult T-cell leukemia
Abbreviated ATL. A malignancy of mature T lymphocytes (T cells) with its onset in adulthood caused by infection with the human T-lymphotropic virus (HTLV) and characterized by circulating malignant T-lymphocytes, skin lesions…
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Show more- Scleritis Inflammation of the sclera, the tough white outer coat of the eyeball. Classic scleritis affects the sclera…
- Mycobacterium avium complex (MAP) A bacterium that causes Johne's disease, a form of chronic inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) in cattle…
- Pathologic 1. Indicative of or caused by disease, as in a pathologic fracture, pathologic tissue, or pathologic process…
- Arthritis, systemic-onset chronic rheumatoid See: Arthritis, systemic-onset juvenile rheumatoid (Still's disease)
- Yersinia pestis The bacteria that causes the bubonic plague which in the year 541 (as the Black Death) and later in the…
- Appendix cancer A malignancy of the appendix, accounting for about 1 in 200 of all gastrointestinal malignancies. Although…
- Plague Plague: The plague is an infectious disease due to a bacteria called Yersinia pestis. Y. pestis mainly…
- Rhinitis, vasomotor Inflammation of the nose (rhinitis) due to abnormal neuronal (nerve) control of the blood vessels in the…
- Human cloning Human cloning for the purposes of creating a human being. Also called human reproductive cloning. The…
- Sporadic primary pulmonary hypertension See: Pulmonary hypertension
- Phe Phenylalanine. See also: Amino acid symbols
- Angiotensin A family of peptides (smaller than proteins) that act as vasoconstrictors to narrow blood vessels