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Amyloidosis, secondary
Amyloidosis, secondary : One of a group of diseases (called amyloidosis) in which protein deposits (amyloid) accumulate in one or more organ systems in the body, secondary amyloid is caused by a chronic infection or inflammatory disease…
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Show more- United States Public Health Service The agency responsible for the public health of the American people. The Public Health Service (PHS)…
- Reimplantation Synonymous with replantation. See: Replantation
- Evolutionarily conserved sequence A base sequence in a DNA molecule (or an amino acid sequence in a protein) that has remained largely…
- Disease, Ritter This is the scalded skin syndrome, a potentially serious side effect of infection with the Staph…
- Technology transfer The process of converting scientific findings from research laboratories into useful products by the…
- Hyperhidrosis Hyperhidrosis: Excessive sweating. Hidrosis meaning sweating, so hyperhidrosis is too much sweating.
- Nonalcoholic steatohepatitis Fatty inflammation of the liver in people who do not abuse alcohol. NASH (nonalcoholic steatohepatitis) tends…
- Jellyfish sting : The injection into the skin of venom from the stinging unit (the nematocyst) of the jellyfish. The…
- Zinc A mineral essential to the body, zinc is a constituent of many enzymes that permit chemical reactions to…
- Dicysteine Cystine
- Gingivitis, Vincent This is trench mouth, a progressive painful infection with ulceration, swelling and sloughing off of dead…
- Tapeworm, beef See Taenia saginata.