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Extracolonic
Outside the colon. An hereditary colon cancer syndrome may also predispose to extracolonic malignancies
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- Linkage map A map of the genes on a chromosome based on linkage analysis. A linkage map does not show the physical…
- Fibrous dysplasia, monostotic Excessive growth of hard fibrous tissue that replaces normal bone tissue in a single bone. Symptoms may…
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- Nematodes Roundworms.
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