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Bisphosphonate
A class of drugs used to strengthen bone. Bone is in a constant state of remodeling, whereby new bone is laid down by cells called osteoblasts while old bone is removed by cells called osteoclasts. Bisphosphonates inhibit bone removal…
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- Hypocapnia Less than the normal level of carbon dioxide in the blood. Hypoapnia is the opposite of hypercapnia. The…
- Allopathy The system of medical practice which treats disease by the use of remedies which produce effects different…
- Taste Taste belongs to our chemical sensing system, or the chemosenses. The complicated process of tasting begins…
- Brain, fornix of the An arching fibrous band in the brain connecting the two lobes of the cerebrum. (The cerebrum is the largest…
- Acoustic Having to do with sound or hearing. The acoustic nerve (the 8th cranial nerve) is concerned with hearing and…
- Glass eye 1. A globe of glass that looks like and is intended to replace the eyeball.2. By extension, a real eye that…
- Typhoid Mary Someone who by force of circumstances serves as the source from which something undesirable spreads. Typhoid…
- Syndrome, adult respiratory distress Better known as ARDS. See: ARDS
- PARK11 Familial Parkinson disease type 11
- Lobe Part of an organ that appears to be separate in some way from the rest. A lobe may be demarcated from the…
- Yeast syndrome The yeast Candida has been thought to cause a syndrome with a number of nonspecific problems including…