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Show more- Multiple miscarriage More than one miscarriage for a woman. In multiple miscarriages, there is about a 5 percent chance that one…
- Somnolent Sleepy or tending to cause sleep. 'Somnolent' came from French. It descends from the Latin 'somnus' meaning…
- Gibbon, John H., Jr. American cardiovascular surgeon (1903-1973) who performed the world's first successful open-heart operation…
- Health Insurance Portability Accountability Act T: See: HIPAA
- Paget disease of the breast The combination of scaly skin changes of the nipple resembling eczema and an underlying cancer of the breast…
- Blister, water See: Water blister
- GBS Group B strep (or George Bernard Shaw). See also Group B streptococcus infection
- RAD51 An enzyme that coordinates recombination and that is important to the process of error-free DNA repair by…
- Juvenile polyposis syndrome See: Juvenile polyposis
- Gregarious Living in the company of others. A gregarious parasite is one whose nutritional requirements are such that…
- Pancreatic beta cell A type of cell in the pancreas that makes insulin. The pancreas is a fish-shaped organ that stretches across…
- Time, prothrombin A clotting test, the prothrombin time is done to test the integrity of part of the clotting scheme. The…