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Cigarette
A small roll of finely cut tobacco enclosed in a wrapper of thin paper designed for smoking. 'Cigarettes are the only product sold on the free market that, when used as directed, can kill people.' (L Chasan-Taber & M Stampfer, New Engl…
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Show more- Urate A salt derived from uric acid. When the body cannot metabolize uric acid properly, urates can build up in…
- MAM Menstrually associated migraine. See: Menstrual migraine
- Open reading frame A long sequence of DNA that has no stop codon (no signal to stop reading) and therefore may encode part or…
- Genomic library A collection of clones made from a set of randomly generated overlapping DNA fragments representing the…
- Transcriptome The complete set of RNA transcripts produced by the genome at any one time. The transcriptome is dynamic and…
- Conjoined twin Identical (monozygotic) twins that did not separate fully from one another but are still partially united…
- Posture, static See: Static posture
- Rectal incontinence Inability to hold feces in the rectum due to failure of voluntary control over the anal sphincters with…
- Mastocytoma A form of mastocytosis characterized by a benign nodular skin tumor infiltrated by mast cells. Usually…
- Psyche 1. The mind.2. The spirit or soul.3. In psychiatry, the mind as the center of thought, emotion, and behavior…
- Coryza A cold in the head. The word 'coryza' came from the Greek 'koryza' which is thought to have been compounded…
- Stereotactic needle biopsy A biopsy in which the spot to be biopsied is located three-dimensionally, the information is entered into a…