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Leukoencephalopathy with vanishing white matter, an inherited brain disease that occurs mainly in children. and follows a chronic progressive course with additional episodes of rapid deterioration following stress from febrile infection or…
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Show more- Protein A large molecule composed of one or more chains of amino acids in a specific order determined by the base…
- T-8 cells T cells that express the CD8 transmembrane glycoprotein (CD8+ T cells). They close down the immune response…
- National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Res. (NIDCR): One of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) in the U.S., the NIDCR is for dental and other…
- Dyspnoea Difficult or labored breathing; shortness of breath. Dyspnoea is a sign of serious disease of the airway…
- Perinatologist An obstetrical subspecialist concerned with the care of the mother and fetus at higher-than-normal risk for…
- Infection, rotavirus Rotavirus: A leading cause of severe winter diarrhea in young children. Each year, rotavirus (RV) causes an…
- Residual Something left behind. With residual disease, the disease has not been eradicated
- Total laryngectomy A surgical procedure in which the whole voice box is removed, and the stoma opening into the larynx is…
- Sequence, intervening An intervening sequence is the part of a gene that is initially transcribed from the DNA into RNA…
- Disease, chronic wasting See Chronic wasting disease
- Heteroplasia The replacement of normal tissue of the body by abnormal tissue or by malpositioned normal tissue, a tissue…
- Orbital fracture A break in one of the bones that make up the orbit. Since the orbit is the seat of the globe (the eye), an…