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ApoA-I Milano
A variant of apolipoprotein A-I identified in about 40 inhabitants of Limone sul Garde, a small town in rural North Italy, who had extraordinarily low HDL levels, levels so low that they were off the scale. Because HDL is the 'good'…
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Show more- Fauces The throat. The word fauces is the plural of the Latin faux meaning a small passage.
- Psychiatric Pertaining to or within the purview of psychiatry, the medical specialty concerned with the prevention…
- Tumor grade The degree of abnormality of cancer cells, a measure of differentiation, the extent to which cancer cells are…
- Scrub in To wash the hands and forearms very thoroughly, as for surgery. To scrub in implies the use of a brush (and…
- Exocrine Pertaining to the secretion of a substance out through a duct. The exocrine glands include the salivary…
- Triglycerides The major form of fat. A triglyceride consists of three molecules of fatty acid combined with a molecule of…
- Endovaginal ultrasound This type of imaging test is a special form of ultrasound developed to examine the pelvic organs and is the…
- Myalgia, epidemic Also known as Bornholm disease, this is a temporary illness that is a result of virus infection. The disease…
- Stickler, Gunnar B. German-American pediatrician Gunnar B. Stickler (1925-) who first described the genetic disorder of collagen…
- Perfusion A chemotherapy technique that may be used when melanoma occurs on an arm or leg. The flow of blood to and…
- Preoperative Before surgery. As opposed to postoperative, after surgery
- Advanced maternal age Usually defined as age 35 or more for the mother at the time of delivery of her baby. Advanced maternal age…