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Olfactory nerve
A nerve that registers smells by carrying the impulses for the sense of smell from the nose to the brain. Olfactory nerves continually regenerate -- through all of childhood and adulthood. The olfactory nerves are the only nerves in the…
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Show more- Melanoma, superficial spreading One of the four clinical types of malignant melanoma, the most common type in whites, typically presents as a…
- Unwell Not well or in good health, ailing, sick, indisposed. For example, 'I am well-nigh choked with the sulfurous…
- Xeroderma Abnormally dry skin. Xeroderma can be caused by a deficiency of vitamin A, systemic illness, overexposure to…
- Thrombectomy Procedure to remove a clot (a thrombus)
- Scaling Abnormal shedding or accumulation of an upper layer of skin (the stratum corneum)
- Vertebrae, thoracic The 12 thoracic vertebrae are situated between the cervical (neck) vertebrae and the lumbar vertebrae. The…
- Gene, evolutionarily conserved A gene that has remained essentially unchanged throughout evolution. Conservation of a gene indicates that it…
- PGF Placental growth factor
- Positive-strand RNA virus Also known as a sense-strand RNA virus, a virus whose genetic information consists of a single strand of RNA…
- Polymerase chain reaction (PCR) PCR
- Birt Hogg Dube syndrome See: Birt-Hogg-Dube syndrome
- Locomotion Movement from one place to another. And the ability to locomote, to get from one place to the next. The…