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Pseudomonas pseudomallei
A bacteria that causes an infectious illness called melioidosis or Whitmore's disease that is most frequent in Southeast Asia and Northern Australia. Pseudomonas pseudomallei is found in soil, rice paddies and stagnant waters. Humans catch…
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- Rice genome The first commercially important plant to have its genome sequenced. This feat, completed early in 2001, is…
- Infection, Vincent This is trench mouth, a progressive painful infection with ulceration, swelling and sloughing off of dead…
- Infant, post-term An overly mature baby that has not been born until well after the usual term pregnancy. A post-term baby is…
- JAK3 inhibitor A drug that inhibits the enzyme JAK3 (which is found only in immune cells) and acts as an immunosuppressant
- White matter The part of the brain that contains myelinated nerve fibers. The white matter is white because it is the…
- Moonflower An hallucinogenic but poisonous plant known scientifically as Datura that has white flowers that bloom at…
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- Brachydactyly Short, stubby fingers and toes. Brachydactyly is a frequent feature of syndromes of congenital malformation…
- Male organs of reproduction >The male external genitalia -- the penis, the male urethra, and the scrotum; and >The male internal…
- Alactasia Lack of the enzyme lactase which is needed to digest the milk sugar lactose. See: Lactase deficiency