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Food, functional
Functional foods are 'those foods that encompass potentially healthful products including any modified food or ingredient that may provide a health benefit beyond the traditional nutrients it contains,' as defined by the Institute of…
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Show more- Sacral Referring to the sacrum, the 5 vertebral bones situated between the lumbar vertebrae and the coccyx (the…
- Hygiene theory See: Hygiene hypothesis
- Time, prothrombin A clotting test, the prothrombin time is done to test the integrity of part of the clotting scheme. The…
- Age-related deafness See: Presbycusis
- Sleeplessness Insomnia. See also Fatal familial insomnia
- Scoliosis Scoliosis: Sideways (lateral) curving of the spine (the backbone). The degree of scoliosis may range from…
- Lesbianism Female homosexuality. Also called sapphism (after the lesbian poet Sappho)
- Metapneumovirus See: Human metapneumovirus
- Autoimmune hemolytic anemia A condition in which the immune system attacks the red blood cells, resulting in fewer of these…
- Transmyocardial laser revascularization A procedure by which a physician uses a laser to make holes in the heart to relieve the pain of severe…
- Bursitis, knee Inflammation of a bursa of the knee joint. A bursa is a fluid-filled sac that functions as a gliding surface…
- Isochromosome 17q An abnormal chromosome 17 with two identical long (q) arms due to duplication of the long arm and loss of the…