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Sickle cell trait
The condition in which a person has one copy of the gene for sickle cell (and is called a sickle heterozygote) but does not have sickle cell disease (which requires two copies of the sickle cell gene). If two people with sickle cell trait…
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Show more- Itch, seabather's An intensely itchy rash due to contact with the tiny thimble jellyfish (Linuche unguiculata). These jellyfish…
- Fracture, Salter-Harris A traumatic fracture around or through the growth plate (the epiphyseal plate) of a bone in a child
- Queensland tick typhus One of the tick-borne rickettsial diseases of the eastern hemisphere. Queensland tick typhus is similar to…
- Supinator foot type A type of foot that restricts the impact of the stride largely to the outer edges of the foot. This type of…
- DES Diethylstilbestrol, the earliest synthetic (man-made) form of a hormone in the estrogen class. DES was once…
- Fetal rubella effects The constellation of abnormalities, also called the rubella syndrome, caused by infection with the rubella…
- Dysplasia, faciodigitogenital See: Aarskog-Scott syndrome
- Pes Latin word meaning foot.
- Cyto (combining form) Rm denoting a cell. Derived from the Greek 'kytos' meaning 'hollow, as a cell or container.' From the same…
- Serotype The kind of microorganism as characterized by serologic typing (testing for recognizable antigens on the…
- Study, electrophysiologic See: Framingham Study.
- Glucocorticoid A hormone that predominantly affects the metabolism of carbohydrates and, to a lesser extent, fats and…