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Underwater weighing
A method for determining the lean body mass. This method weighs a person underwater and then calculates the lean body mass (muscle) and body fat. This method is one of the more accurate ones. However, it is generally done in special…
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- Congenital torticollis A deformity of the neck that is evident at birth. It is due to shortening of the neck muscles. Congenital…
- Humoral Pertaining to elements in the blood or other body fluids. In medicine, humor refers to a fluid (or semifluid)…
- Assay, CEA CEA (carcinoembryonic antigen) is a protein found in many types of cells but associated with tumors and the…
- Sitosterolemia A genetic disease involving lipids (fats) in which there is excessive intestinal absorption of dietary…
- Appendix rupture Rupture of appendix
- Austin Flint murmur A murmur due to aortic regurgitation, originating at the mitral valve when blood enters simultaneously from…
- Speculum, vaginal An instrument used to widen the opening of the vagina so that the cervix is more easily visible. 'Speculum'…
- Hereditary hemorrhagic telangiectasia Kidney cancer due to a gene than can be transmitted from parent to child. The vast majority of kidney cancer…
- EST (expressed sequence tag) A unique stretch of DNA within a coding region of a gene that is useful for identifying full-length genes and…
- P arm of a chromosome The short arm of a chromosome. The 'p' comes from the French 'petit' meaning small. All human chromosomes…
- Colinearity 1. In general, the arrangement of one sequence in the same linear order as another sequence.2. In…