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Immunity, passive
See: Passive immunity
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Show more- LVRS Lung volume reduction surgery. See: Lung reduction surgery
- Incontinentia pigmenti In medicine, the time from the moment of exposure to an infectious agent until signs and symptoms of the…
- Ligament, medial collateral knee The knee joint is surrounded by a joint capsule with ligaments strapping the inside and outside of the joint…
- Meningocele (MM) Protrusion of the membranes that cover the spine and part of the spinal cord through a bone defect in the…
- Test, allergy scratch Allergy scratch: Test done on the skin to identify the allergy substance (the allergen) that is the trigger…
- QALY Quality adjusted life year, a year of life adjusted for its quality or its value. A year in perfect health is…
- Reflex, let down The let down reflex of the mother is an involuntary reflex during breastfeeding which causes the milk to flow…
- Marburg disease The virus that causes Marburg hemorrhagic fever, a disease which affects both humans and non-human primates…
- Global Initiative for Chronic Obstructive Lung Dis See: GOLD
- Mucolipidosis One of a group of inherited storage diseases in which both lipids and substances called mucopolysaccharides…
- Tick-borne disease >Babesiosis (a malaria-like infection) >Colorado tick fever (generally in the western US) >Ehrlichiosis >Lyme…
- Dactylitis Inflammation of a digit (either a finger or a toe). Dactyl comes from the Greek 'daktylos' meaning 'finger.'…