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Saffir-Simpson hurricane scale
A 1-5 rating based on the hurricane's present intensity. This scale is used to give an estimate of the potential property damage and flooding expected along the coast from a hurricane landfall. Wind speed is the determining factor in the…
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Show more- Vaccine, meningococcal A vaccine to prevent meningococcal meningitis, an inflammation of the membranes that cover the brain and…
- Brittle diabetes A type of diabetes when a person's blood glucose (sugar) level often swings quickly from high to low and from…
- Representational oligonucleotide microarray The production of offspring. Reproduction need not be sexual. Yeast can reproduce by budding.
- Total hysterectomy Hysterectomy: Complete surgical removal of the uterus and cervix. Also called a complete hysterectomy
- Trip Street name for alpha-ethyltryptamine and for LSD
- Male genitalia The genital organs of the male. These are usually separated by convention into the external and internal…
- Medicine, geriatric The branch of medicine concerned with the diagnosis, treatment and prevention of disease in older people and…
- Hyperekplexia A genetic disorder also known as hyperexplexia in which babies have an exaggerated startle reflex (reaction)…
- Symmetric lipomatosis, multiple A disorder characterized by painless symmetrical diffuse deposits of fat beneath the skin of the neck, upper…
- Smoldering leukemia A condition in which the bone marrow does not function normally. It does not produce enough blood cells. This…
- Small cell lung cancer A type of lung cancer in which the cells appear small and round under the microscope. Also called oat cell…
- Therapy The treatment of disease. Therapy is synonymous with treatment, as for example: > >Antiretroviral therapy…