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Quasidominant
Pattern of inheritance that seems due to a dominant trait but is in fact due to the mating of a person who has a recessive disorder (with two copies of a gene causing the disease) with someone who is an asymptomatic carrier (with one copy…
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- SEM Scanning electron microscope
- Genetic disease Genetic disease: A disease caused by an abnormality in an individual's genome. There are a number of…
- Motion sickness Motion sickness: Motion sickness is a very common disturbance of the inner ear that is caused by repeated…
- Angle-closure glaucoma This condition can be acute or chronic. It consists of increased pressure in the front chamber (anterior…
- Phenomenon, phantom limb See Phantom limb syndrome
- Medical symbol A staff or rod with a snake curled around it is the staff (the rod) of Aesculapius (also called Asklepios)…
- Autogenous Self-produced
- Glu Glutamic acid. See also: Amino acid symbols
- Melanoma, lentigo maligna One of the four clinical types of malignant melanoma and the slowest growing one. It typically begins as a…
- Gel electrophoresis The process in which molecules (such as proteins, DNA, or RNA fragments) can be separated according to size…
- Rheumatism Rheumatism is an older term, used to describe any of a number of painful conditions of muscles, tendons…