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Gay
A person who is homosexual, especially a male homosexual. The word 'gay' in this regard may denote the homosexual individual or the lifestyle, particularly a male homosexual lifestyle
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- Mania, mixed See: Mixed mania
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- Mixed-lineage leukemia A type of childhood leukemia in which a piece of chromosome 11 has been translocated (broken off and attached…
- HCFA The Health Care Finance Administration, the part of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS)…
- Salicylic acid A substance obtained from plants (white willow back and wintergreen leaves) and also synthesized which is…
- Drug resistance The ability of bacteria and other microorganisms to withstand a drug to which they were once sensitive and…
- TPN Total parenteral nutrition, intravenous feeding that provides a patient with all of the fluid and the…
- Restitution In cytogenetics, the spontaneous rejoining of broken chromosomes to reconstitute the original chromosome…
- Nonoxynol Nonoxynol-9 is the most commonly encountered spermatocide in the United States. As with other spermatocides…
- Gunnar B. Stickler See: Stickler, Gunnar B.
- DEXA Dual energy X-ray absorptometry. See: DXA