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Rubella vaccine
A vaccine designed to prevent rubella, or German measles. German measles was once seen merely as a child's unpleasant rite of passage. It was thought to be a mild malady that was usually over and done in three days. So what? Then an…
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- Therapy, family See: Family therapy
- Microarray A tool used to sift through and analyze the information contained within a genome. A microarray consists of…
- Five-lipoxygenase activating protein See: FLAP
- Goiter, diffuse toxic Graves disease, the most common cause of hyperthyroidism (overactivity of the thyroid gland), with…
- Prandial Of or relating to a meal. Prandial pain is pain while eating. Although medical terms usually have a…
- C. welchii Clostridium welchii
- Atherogenesis The process of forming atheromas, plaques in the inner lining (the intima) of arteries
- Xeroderma pigmentosum A genetic disease characterized by such extraordinary sensitivity to sunlight that it results in the…
- Affective disorder, seasonal (SAD) Depression that tends to occur (and recur) as the days grow shorter in the fall and winter. It is believed…
- Multiple symmetric lipomatosis A disorder characterized by painless symmetrical diffuse deposits of fat beneath the skin of the neck, upper…