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- Intolerance, food Difficulty in digesting a food. Common offenders include milk products, wheat and other grains that contain…
- Cells, germ The eggs and sperm are the germ cells: the reproductive cells. Each mature germ cell is haploid in that it…
- PFOA Perfluorooctanoic acid. See: Perfluorinated acid
- FFI Fatal familial insomnia
- Typhus, murine An acute infectious disease with fever, headache, and rash, all quite similar to, but milder than, epidemic…
- Pachymeninx The dura. From pachy- (thick) + -meninx (membrane). The plural is pachymeninges
- Intraductal papilloma A benign, wart-like growth that occurs in breast ducts
- Menangle virus A virus that causes a disease first found in a piggery near Sydney, Australia in 1997. The virus was highly…
- White blood cell count Kocyte count): The number of white blood cells (WBCs) in the blood. The WBC is usually measured as part of…
- Isoleucine An amino acid, one of the 20 building blocks of protein. A dietary essential amino acid, isoleucine is needed…
- Neurotoxic Poisonous to nerves or nerve tissue. Mercury and lead are neurotoxic