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Goodman syndrome
A genetic syndrome characterized by acrocephalosyndactyly -- birth defects involving the head and face and the fingers. The craniofacial features are essentially those of acrocephaly while the finger abnormalities include polydactyly…
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- Anaesthesia See: Anesthesia
- Diseases related to obesity Obesity increases the risk of developing a large number of diseases. These include: > >Type 2 (adult-onset)…
- Blood clots, estrogen-associated >esterified estrogens >esterified estrogens and methyltestosterone >estradiol >estrogens (conjugated) and…
- Hodgkin, Dorothy British crystallographer and Nobel Prize winner (1910-1994). Dorothy Crowfoot, as she was born, was educated…
- Reading frame, open See: Open reading frame
- Hypercarbia More than the normal level of carbon dioxide in the blood. Hypercarbia is the opposite of hypocarbia
- Syndrome, Klinefelter A chromosome condition in boys and men that is usually due to their having 47 chromosomes with XXY sex…
- Qi gong ('chee-GUNG') A component of traditional Chinese medicine that combines movement, meditation, and regulation…
- Toxic shock syndrome A grave condition occurring predominantly in menstruating women using tampons, toxic shock is characterized…
- Sequence, regulatory A sequence of bases in DNA that controls gene expression
- Anaprox See: Naproxen