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Food poisoning, Campylobacter
Food poisoning, Campylobacter: Now the leading cause of bacterial food poisoning, caused by an Campylobacter jejuni, most often spread by contact with raw or undercooked poultry. A single drop of juice from a contaminated chicken is enough…
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- CD95 See: FAS gene
- Pain, false labor The pain associated with intermittent non-productive muscular contractions of the womb (uterus) during…
- NIOSH The National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, a US Federal agency responsible for conducting…
- Syndrome, Fahr This syndrome described in 1930 by T. Fahr is a genetic (inherited) neurological disorder characterized by…
- MCP1 Monocyte chemotactic protein-1, a member of the small inducible gene (SIG) family, plays a role in the…
- Shingle In medicine, a small signboard outside the office of a doctor. The term has nothing to do with the disease…
- Vitiligo Vitiligo: Pronounced vit-uh-LIE- go. A condition in which the skin turns white due to the loss of…
- Rib, false One of the last 5 pairs of ribs. A rib is said to be 'false' if it does not attach to the sternum (the breast…
- Hodgkin, Dorothy British crystallographer and Nobel Prize winner (1910-1994). Dorothy Crowfoot, as she was born, was educated…
- Syndrome, Aarskog See: Aarskog-Scott syndrome
- Cranial nerve V The fifth cranial nerve is the trigeminal nerve. The trigeminal nerve is quite complex. It functions both as…