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Dysgraphia
A specific developmental disability that affects the person's ability to write. Problems may include fine-motor muscle control of the hands and/or processing difficulties. Sometimes occupational therapy is helpful. Most successful students…
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Show more- Fiber, elastic See: Elastic fiber
- Fridayitis A perplexing condition that suddenly strikes some workers and students on Friday and leads to their absence…
- Septum A word borrowed from the Latin 'saeptum' meaning a 'dividing wall or enclosure.
- Pulmonary alveolar proteinosis Lung disease characterized by progressive difficulty breathing (dyspnea) and cough due to the accumulation of…
- Cow genome See: Bovine genome
- Dinucleotide A sequence of 2 base pairs. A trinucleotide (a triplet of base pairs) may be split into a dinucleotide and a…
- Marshall W. Nirenberg A disorder characterized by advanced bone age at birth, broad forehead, prominent eyes, and small chin. There…
- Calcification, nonarteriosclerotic cerebral This condition described in 1930 by T. Fahr (and therefore called Fahr syndrome) is a genetic (inherited)…
- Scrubs A protective garment designed to be worn by the doctor, nurse, and others in the operating room. The garment…
- Mitochondrial inheritance The inheritance of a trait encoded in the mitochondrial genome. Because of the oddities of mitochondria…
- Wymmin An alternate spelling of wimmin
- Ventricle, fourth >Lateral ventricles: The lateral ventricles are in the cerebral hemispheres, one in each hemisphere. Each…