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Feed contaminant
A substance contaminating animal feed. Contaminants in animal feed can threaten human health. There are two classes of feed contaminants. > >Contaminants that are naturally occurring -- This class of feed contaminants is made up of toxic…
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- Syndrome, post-polio (PPS) A constellation of symptoms and signs that appear from 20 to 40 years after the initial polio infection, and…
- Operation, Macewen A surgical operation for inguinal hernia designed by Sir William Macewen (1848-1924), a surgeon in Glascow…
- Chromatin modeling See: Chromatin remodeling
- Sutton's law In medicine, the principle of going straight to the most likely diagnosis. The law is named for the bank…
- TXA2 Thromboxane A2, the active form of thromboxane
- Small for gestational age (SGA) SGA infants weigh 2500 g or less at birth and are considered to have intrauterine growth retardation (IUGR)…
- Astigmatic Referring to astigmatism or a person with astigmatism, a common form of visual impairment in which part of an…
- Heterozygote A person possessing two different forms of a particular gene, one inherited from each parent. A heterozygote…
- Spondylolisthesis Forward movement of one of the building blocks (vertebrae) of the spine in relation to an adjacent vertebra…
- Mononeuritis Inflammation of a single nerve. There are many causes of mononeuritis including diabetes mellitus, carpal…
- Liposuction Liposuction: The most common cosmetic operation in the U. S. with over 400,000 such surgical operations done…