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Chloride
The major anion (negatively charged substance) in the blood and extracellular fluid (the body fluid that lies outside cells). Blood and other body fluids have almost the same concentration of chloride ion as sea water. The balance of…
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- Physiology >Some physiological studies are concerned with processes that go on within cells such as phagocytosis, the…
- Thrombocythemia An abnormally high number of platelets in the blood. Also known as thrombocytosis.
- Osteolytic lesion A 'punched-out' area of severe bone loss. Osteolytic lesions are seen in metastatic lung and breast cancer…
- Cranial nerve VII The cranial nerves emerge from or enter the skull (the cranium), as opposed to the spinal nerves which emerge…
- Sensory neuron A neuron that receives electrical input signals from sensory cells and from other neurons
- Menstrual synchronization A phenomenon that occurs when two or more menstruating women live together, in which the menstrual cycles of…
- Attentional Relating to attention. The term is used in psychology and child development as, for example, early television…
- Ear, slanted An ear that is slanted more than usual. Technically, an ear is slanted when the angle of the slope of the…
- Pulmonary function test A test designed to measure how well the lungs are working. Pulmonary function tests (PFTs) gauge how the…
- Papuliferous 1. Having papules. 2. Having pimples. Simply pimply. From papule, pimple + the Latin fero, to bear. Also…
- DHEA Dehydroepiandrosterone