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Concordant
1. Showing concordance, complete agreement. A couple may be concordant for a sexually transmitted infection, with both partners having it. 2. In transplantation genetics, between closely related species. A concordant xenograft is a…
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- Serratus One of several muscles of the back and thorax. that have interdigitating slips that ressemble the notches on…
- Shock Shock: In medicine, shock is a critical condition brought on by a sudden drop in blood flow through the body…
- Pachyonychia Elephant nail, a fingernail or toenail that is abnormally thick. From the Greek pachys, thick + onyx, nail =…
- Trabecula A partition which divides or partly divides a cavity. > >One of the strands of connective tissue projecting…
- Pressure sore A sore area of skin that develops when the blood supply to it is cut off for more than two to three hours due…
- Andrology The branch of medicine concerned with men's health, particularly male infertility and sexual dysfunction…
- Adenosine deaminase (ADA) An enzyme that plays a key role in salvaging purine molecules
- Acapnia Less than the normal level of carbon dioxide in the blood. The opposite of hypercapnia. The origin of the…
- Missense mutation Mutation: A genetic change involving the substitution of one base in the DNA for another which results in the…
- RMSF Rocky Mountain spotted fever.
- D-IBS Diarrhea-predominant IBS (irritable bowel syndrome)