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Parvovirus infection
Infection with one of a family of small single-stranded DNA viruses. (Parvovirus means small virus, from the Latin parvus, small.) One type, parvovirus B19, infects only humans. There are also animal parvoviruses, but they do not infect…
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Show more- Biosafety level A specific combination of work practices, safety equipment, and facilities which are designed to minimize the…
- Cryosurgery Treatment performed with an instrument that freezes and destroys abnormal tissue. See also cryotherapy.
- Pathogen inactivation A process designed to eliminate most pathogens -- viruses, bacteria and fungi -- from water, air or donated…
- Ophthalmitis Inflammation of the eye. Also known as ophthalmia
- Trigeminal nerve The trigeminal nerve functions both as the chief nerve of sensation for the face and the motor nerve…
- Film Slang shortening of X-ray film, an X-ray, a radiograph
- Brachial plexus palsy Paralysis of the arm due to an injury to the brachial plexus, a network of spinal nerves that originates in…
- Interatrial septum The partition separating the upper chambers (the atria) of the heart
- Cyclops A common freshwater crustacean. Some species of Cyclops serve as hosts for parasites such as the guinea worm…
- Gyrus, lingual See: Lingual gyrus
- Bacteriocidal The science and study of bacteria and their relation to medicine and to other areas such as agriculture…
- Ovulatory Relating to ovulation, the release of the ovum (the egg) from the ovary