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Placebo-controlled
A term used to describe a method of research in which an inactive substance (a placebo) is given to one group of participants, while the treatment (usually a drug or vaccine) being tested is given to another group. The results obtained in…
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Show more- Guanine One of the four bases in DNA that make up the letters ATGC. Guanine is the 'G'. The others are adenine…
- Td Adult diphtheria and tetanus toxoids. See Td immunization
- Anderson-Fabry disease See: Fabry disease
- Familial tremor See: Essential tremor
- Tag, skin A small tag of skin that may have a stalk (a peduncle). Skin tags may appear on the skin almost anywhere…
- Contig Contiguous sequence of DNA created by assembling overlapping sequenced fragments of a chromosome. A group of…
- EYCL2 A gene for brown eye color. See also: Eye color
- FMF (familial Mediterranean fever) An inherited disorder featuring short recurring crises of severe abdominal pain and bouts of fever. Other…
- British National Formulary Osteogenesis imperfecta, not one but a group of genetic diseases, all of which affect collagen, a key…
- ZIFT Stands for zygote intrafallopian transfer, a method used to treat infertility in which an egg fertilized in…
- Vulvar pain, chronic Also called essential vulvodynia (literally means 'painful vulva'), pain in the vulva, the female external…
- Diploid The number of chromosomes in most cells of the body. This number is 46 in humans. It is naturally twice the…