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Neurosteroid
A brain steroid, a molecule structurally similar to cortisone, progesterone and the gonadal hormones. Neurosteroids play a role in controlling anxiety and depression. Antidepressant drugs known as selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors…
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- Pollenosis See: Pollinosis
- Hospital It may seem unnecessary to define a 'hospital' since everyone knows the nature of a hospital. A hospital…
- Human herpesvirus 8 (HHV-8) A herpesvirus that contributes to the development of Kaposi sarcoma, an otherwise rare form of cancer…
- Bodywork Any of a number of therapeutic or simply relaxing practices that involve the manipulation, massage, or…
- Autoradiography A technique using X- ray film to visualize molecules or fragments of molecules that have been radioactively…
- Cyclin E A protein that is part of a molecular network that controls the cell cycle. There are a large number of…
- Photodynamic therapy Photodynamic therapy: A form of cancer treatment using an photosensitizing agent administered intravenously…
- TMA See Trimethylaminuri
- STAT Medical term used to imply urgent or rush. It may appear in lower case letters as stat or in capital letters…
- Hair loss Hair loss: Hair loss is the thinning of hair on the scalp. The medical term for hair loss is alopecia…
- Iliac horns Symmetrical bilateral central posterior iliac processes. In other words, horn-like malformations of the crest…