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Colorblindness
The inability to perceive colors in a normal fashion. The most common forms of colorblindness are inherited as sex-linked (X-linked) recessive traits. Females are carriers and males are affected. As a result, approximately 1 in 8 males is…
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Show more- Pulseless disease Takayasu disease. Called pulseless disease because inflammation of blood vessels (vasculitis) can lead to…
- Hypotensive Having abnormally low blood pressure (hypotension). See also: Hypertensive; Normotensive
- Informatics The application of computers and statistics to the management of information. For example, in the Human…
- Orthologous gene 1. A term coined by the chemist Linus Pauling who defined it as "the preservation of good health and the…
- Impotence Impotence: A common problem among men characterized by the consistent inability to sustain an erection…
- Seizure, grand mal See: Grand mal
- Vernix caseosa A white cheesy substance that covers and protects the skin of the fetus and is still all over the skin of a…
- Colorblindness, red-green A form of colorblindness in which red and green are perceived as identical. This is the most common type of…
- Argon laser A laser with ionized argon as the active medium. Argon lasers are used for photocoagulation in ophthalmology
- DEXA Dual energy X-ray absorptometry. See: DXA
- Modelling, chromatin See: Chromatin remodeling
- Candidate gene Any gene thought likely to cause a disease. The gene may be a candidate because it is located in a particular…