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Pucker, macular
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- Beers criteria Criteria for safe medication use in older adults -- for people over 65 years of age. First issued in 1991…
- Stop codon A set of three adjacent bases in the DNA or their complementary bases in messenger RNA that specifies the end…
- Disordered thinking A failure to be able to 'think straight.' Thoughts may come and go rapidly. The person may not be able to…
- Progressive infantile poliodystrophy Ers: A progressive disease of the nervous system characterized by spasticity (tightness), myoclonus and…
- Arthropathy Joint disease. The term arthropathy does not specify the type of joint disease. It might be osteoarthropathy…
- Thyroxine Abbreviated T4. A hormone made by the thyroid gland that has four iodine molecules attached to its molecular…
- Tension, arterial The pressure of the blood within an artery, the arterial pressure. Also called the intra-arterial pressure…
- Familial lung cancer Lung cancer that recurs in families. Lung cancer can occur sporadically in people with no known family…
- Death rate, infant The number of children dying under a year of age divided by the number of live births that year. The infant…