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Arrhythmias, slow
Abnormally slow heart rhythms, medically termed bradycardia
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- Doraphobia An abnormal and persistent fear of fur. Sufferers of this fear avoid fur-bearing animals such as dogs, cats…
- Genome, mustard Arabidopsis thaliana See: Arabidopsis thaliana genome
- Dynacin Brand name for minocycline
- Hypoglossal neuropathy Disease of the hypoglossal nerve, the twelfth cranial nerve. The twelve cranial nerves, the hypoglossal nerve…
- Muscle, subscapularis >The subscapularis muscle; >The supraspinatus muscle, which is responsible for elevating the arm and moving…
- Syndrome, HDR The syndrome of familial Hypoparathyroidism, sensorineural Deafness, and Renal dysplasia. Inherited as an…
- Megacolon An abnormally enlarged colon.
- Milzbrand Known also as anthrax, milzbrand is a serious bacterial infection. It is not primarily a human disease but…
- Dendrite A short arm-like protuberance from a nerve cell (a neuron). Dendrites from neurons next to one another are…
- NHGRI Stands for National Human Genome Research Institute, one of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) in the…
- STAT Medical term used to imply urgent or rush. It may appear in lower case letters as stat or in capital letters…