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YAC
YAC stands for yeast artificial chromosome, a vector (carrier) created and used in the laboratory to clone pieces of DNA. A YAC is constructed from the telomeric, centromeric, and replication origin sequences needed for replication in…
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Show more- Drug, anti-infective Something capable of acting against infection, by inhibiting the spread of an infectious agent or by killing…
- Cancer, endometrial See: Endometrial cancer
- Trismus Inability to open the mouth fully. This may be due to spasm of the jaw muscles and be a symptom of tetanus…
- Avery See: Avery, Oswald Theodore
- LaMontagne See: La Montagne, John
- Immunoglobulin E Abbreviated IgG. A major class of immunoglobulins found in the blood, including many of the most common…
- Diaphragmatic hernia Hernia: Passage of a loop of bowel through the diaphragm muscle. This type of hernia occurs as the bowel from…
- Scan, radionuclide See: Radionuclide scan
- Gamete intrafallopian transfer (GIFT) A technique in which the male and female germ cells required to begin formation of a human embryo are…
- Flu, Spanish See: Spanish flu
- Von Recklinghausen disease Neurofibromatosis type 1
- Plague genome All of the DNA (the genome) of the bacterium Yersinia pestis that causes the plague, consisting of four rings…