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Connectionism
>An input device receiving signals from the environment or from other neurons, >An integrative device integrating and manipulating the input, >A conductive device conducting the integrated information over distances, >An output device…
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- Binucleate Having two nuclei. Binucleate cells are due to a defect in cytokinesis, the process by which two daughter…
- Orthomolecular medicine 1. A term coined by the chemist Linus Pauling who defined it as 'the preservation of good health and the…
- Stenosis, aortic Narrowing (stenosis) of the heart valve between the left ventricle of the heart and the aorta. This narrowing…
- Cardiomyopathy, dilated See: Dilated cardiomyopathy
- Alembic A type of still, an apparatus used in the process of distillation. Alembics were employed in chemistry and…
- Endovascular aneurysm repair Abbreviated (and most often called) EVAR. See: EVAR
- Fungistatic Capable of inhibiting the growth of fungi
- Mental retardation, blindness, deafness, seizures Seizures: A disorder first reported in 1999 by Gustavson and colleagues as a newly recognized X-linked mental…
- Microvascular surgery Surgery on very small blood vessels such as those only 3 to 5 millimeters in diameter. Microvascular surgery…
- Syndrome, chromosome 4p- The 4p- syndrome or Wolf-Hirschhorn syndrome, is a chromosome disorder due to partial deletion of the short…
- Gingivitis, ulcerative This is trench mouth, a progressive painful infection with ulceration, swelling and sloughing off of dead…