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Spanish disease
Syphilis. Depending upon someone's thoughts as to where the disease came from, syphilis was also known as the French, Italian, German and Polish disease
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- Restriction enzyme An enzyme from bacteria that can recognize specific base sequences in DNA and cut the DNA at that site (the…
- Polysomnography Continuous recording of specific physiologic variables during sleep. Polysomnography typically records brain…
- Chromosome, Y See: Y chromosome
- Dengue Also known as Dengue fever, an acute mosquito-borne viral illness of sudden onset that usually follows a…
- Disseminated vaccinia See Progressive vaccinia
- Juvenile polyposis An autosomal dominant disorder in which polyps develop throughout the gastrointestinal tract in the first…
- LAC encephalitis LaCrosse encephalitis, one of the main types of encephalitis caused by an arbovirus in the US. An arbovirus…
- Gynecoid Like a woman, womanly, female. The word gynecoid comes from the Greek gyno, gynaikos meaning woman. Gyneco-…
- Masklike face An expressionless face with little or no sense of animation, a face more like a mask than a real face. A…
- CCHF Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever
- Alternative splicing A mechanism by which different forms of mature mRNAs (messengers RNAs) are generated from the same gene…