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Tropical oil
Coconut, palm kernel or palm oil. Like all fats and oils, these three oils contain various types of fatty acids but, unlike other plant oils, they contain a great deal of saturated fatty acids. Coconut oil is 92%, palm kernel oil 82% and…
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Show more- Hypochondriasm See: Hypochondriasis
- Craniopagus Conjoined twins whose heads are fused together. From cranio-, relating to the cranium + the Greek pagos…
- Holoprosencephaly A relatively common birth defect of the brain, which often also affects facial features, causing closely…
- Thoracic cage The structure formed by the thoracic vertebrae and ribs, the sternum (breastbone), and the costal cartilages…
- Reaction, polymerase chain See: Vasovagal reaction.
- Zellweger syndrome A genetic disorder, also called the cerebrohepatorenal syndrome, characterized by the reduction or absence of…
- Trench fever Fever: A disease borne by body lice that was first recognized in the trenches of World War I, when it is…
- Pulmonary artery catheter Also called a Swan-Ganz catheter. A light flexible balloon-tipped tube that is introduced into the pulmonary…
- Rickets, vitamin D resistant A rickets-like condition caused by an inborn defect of metabolism, usually in males. Vitamin D cannot be…
- Fear of having a malformed child An abnormal and persistent fear of bearing a malformed child is termed teratophobia. A phobia is an…
- Deinococcus radiodurans A bacterium that can survives extremely high levels of radiation and therefore has high potential for…
- NK cell See Natural killer cell