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Metabonomics
The study of metabolic responses to drugs, environmental changes and diseases. Metabonomics is an extension of genomics (concerned with DNA) and proteomics (concerned with proteins). Following on the heels of genomics and proteomics…
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- Hemidiaphragm Half of the diaphragm, the muscle that separates the chest cavity from the abdomen and that serves as the…
- Stewart, Alice (1906-2002) English physician and epidemiologist who discovered the connection between fetal X-rays and…
- Acute myelogenous leukemia Acute myelogenous leukemia: Abbreviated AML. Also called acute myeloid leukemia or acute nonlymphocytic…
- Antiphospholipid antibody syndrome Antiphospholipid antibody syndrome (APLS): An immune disorder characterized by the presence of abnormal…
- Hemangioma, capillary A type of hemangioma (a benign tumor formed by a collection of excess blood vessels) that is composed almost…
- Compassionate use Term used in the US for a method of providing experimental therapeutics prior to final FDA approval for use…
- Undulate To have a wavy border or form. Also, to rise and fall like a wave. For example, the border of a wound may…
- Kidney Dis, Nat'l Inst of Diabetes and Digestive Igestive and (NIDDK): One of the National Institutes of Health in the U.S., the NIDDK has a multisystem name…
- Disease, Osler-Rendu-Weber See: Hereditary hemorrhagic telangiectasia
- Neisseria Group of bacteria that includes the cause of gonorrhea.
- Coarctation A narrowing, a stricture, a constriction. Although the best known coarctation is of the aorta, any artery can…