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Laribacter hongkongensis
A novel type of bacterium first isolated in Hong Kong in 2001 from the blood and empyema (pus in the chest) of a man with alcoholic cirrhosis. Laribacter hongkongensis has been associated with (but not yet proven to cause)…
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- Functional food Functional foods are 'those foods that encompass potentially healthful products including any modified food…
- Sensorineural deafness with XX gonadal dysgenesis See: Perrault syndrome.
- Mab Monoclonal antibody. See: MAB
- Collateral In anatomy, a collateral is a subordinate or accessory part. A collateral is also a side branch, as of a…
- Glioma, visual pathway See Visual pathway glioma
- CoQ10 See: Coenzyme Q10
- Rickets, renal Rickets-like bone malformations caused by prolonged inflammation of the kidneys
- Scratch test for allergy A mammogram (an X-ray of the breast) in women who have no signs of breast cancer. It usually involves two…
- Primitive neuroectodermal tumor One of a remarkable group of tumors that originate in cells from the primitive neural crest and share the…
- Cryocardioplegia Paralysis of the heart by cold (hypothermia)
- ORF Open reading frame