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Show more- Binocular vision The ability to maintain visual focus on an object with both eyes, creating a single visual image. Lack of…
- Protein A large molecule composed of one or more chains of amino acids in a specific order determined by the base…
- Albino A person with albinism. The term was first applied by the Portuguese to people in West Africa who may have…
- Heterotaxy The abnormal placement of organs due to failure to establish the normal left-right patterning during…
- QRS complex The deflections in the tracing of the electrocardiogram (ECG or EKG), comprising the Q, R, and S waves, that…
- ADH (antidiuretic hormone) A peptide molecule that is released by the pituitary gland at the base of the brain after being made nearby…
- Femoral vein The largest vein in the groin. The femoral vein is a continuation of the popliteal vein. It passes, together…
- Disease, gum Inflammation of the soft tissue (gingiva) and abnormal loss of bone that surrounds the teeth and holds them…
- Attenuated virus To attenuate is to weaken or to make (or become) thin. The word derives from a combination of the Latin…
- Desensitization, allergy Stimulation of the immune system with gradually increasing doses of the substances to which a person is…
- Cancer, colon A malignancy that arises from the inner lining of the colon. Most, if not all, of these cancers develop from…
- Defibrillator storm A condition that arises when a defibrillator implanted in the chest to right an arrhythmia (an abnormal heart…