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Consanguinity
Blood relationship because of common ancestry. Everyone carries rare recessive alleles, rare genes that are generally innocuous in the heterozygous state but that in the company of another gene of the same type are capable of causing an…
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- Base in DNA A unit of the DNA. There are 4 bases: adenine (A), guanine (G), thymine (T), and cytosine (C). The sequence…
- Gland, Meibomian See: Meibomian gland
- Perception, auditory The ability to identify, interpret, and attach meaning to sound
- Wet lung See: ARDS
- Sly syndrome A disorder of mucopolysaccharide metabolism characterized by short stature, coarsening of the facial…
- Vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF) A substance made by cells that stimulates new blood vessel formation, a mitogen for vascular endothelial…
- Muscular dystrophy, myotonic Myotonic dystrophy, an inherited disease in which the muscles contract but have decreasing power to relax --…
- McArdle disease Glycogen storage disease type V and the most common type of glycogen storage disease. McArdle disease is an…
- Stenosis, pulmonary The pulmonary valve is too tight so that the flow of blood from the right ventricle of the heart into the…
- Rodenticidal Capable of killing rats or other rodent pests or preventing them from damaging food, crops, etc
- Biceps The biceps is a muscle that has two heads or origins. In Latin, biceps means two-headed and is derived from…