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FMDV
Foot-and-mouth disease virus. See: Foot-and-mouth disease
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- Family, nuclear See: Nuclear family
- Drugs, statin A class of drugs that lower cholesterol. There are currently at least 5 statin drugs on the market in the…
- Motor In medicine, having to do with the movement of a part of the body. Something that produces motion or refers…
- Marker, blood A sign of a disease or condition that can be isolated from a blood sample. For example, the monoclonal…
- Somnambulism A sleepwalker.
- Cancer symptoms Cancer symptoms: Abnormal sensations or conditions that persons can notice that are a result of a cancer. It…
- Hip fracture Broken bone in the hip, a key health problem among the elderly, usually due to a fall or other kind of trauma…
- Salter-Harris fracture A traumatic fracture around or through the growth plate (the epiphyseal plate) of a bone in a child
- Film, AP An X-ray picture in which the beams pass from front-to-back (anteroposterior). As opposed to a PA…
- Gene, transporter A gene that allows drugs to enter cells or, in some cases, acts to keep them out. Transporter genes may…
- Dose, absorbed In radiology, the absorbed dose is the amount of energy that is deposited in any material by ionizing…