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Peripheral
Situated away from the center, as opposed to centrally located. For example, peripheral vision means the type of vision that allows one to see objects that are not in the center of one's visual field. The word 'peripheral' comes from the…
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- Ependymoma A type of brain tumor derived from the cells that line the cavities within the ventricles of the brain and…
- Antiandrogen A drug that blocks the action of androgens (male sex hormones). Antiandrogens are sometimes used in the…
- Acute promyelocytic leukemia Acute promyelocytic leukemia: Commonly called APL, a malignancy of the bone marrow in which there is a…
- Diabetic retinopathy A common complication of diabetes affecting the blood vessels in the retina (the thin light-sensitive…
- National Institutes of Health (NIH) The clinical research facility of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) in the U.S. As a national resource…
- Disease, Crohn A chronic inflammatory disease primarily involving the small and large intestine but which can affect other…
- Psychodynamic drug See: Psychotropic drug
- Right hepatic duct The duct that drains bile from the right half of the liver and joins the left hepatic duct to form the common…
- Somatic 1. Relating to the body. a. As distinguished from the mind (the psyche). b. As distinguished from the gonads…
- Human Genome Project International effort aimed at identifying and sequencing (ordering) all of the bases in the human genome…
- Asn Asparagine. See also: Amino acid symbols