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Mucopolysaccharidosis
One of a series of inherited metabolic disorders affecting a type of complex carbohydrate called a mucopolysaccharide that is deposited in body tissues because the person lacks the specific enzyme needed to metabolize it. The deposition of…
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- White cell differential, automated A machine-generated percentage of the different types of white blood cells, usually split into granulocytes…
- Good Samaritan law A law designed to protect a Good Samaritan from legal liability. Such laws usually specify that whoever in…
- Psychoneuroimmunology The study of the connections between the mind and the neural, immune and endocrine (hormonal) systems. The…
- GALT The enzyme (galactose-1-phosphate uridyl transferase) lack of which causes the genetic metabolic disease…
- RT-PCR RT-PCR (Reverse transcriptase-polymerase chain reaction) is a highly sensitive technique for the detection…
- Weight Watchers
- Stool occult blood test A test to see whether there is blood in the bowel movement. Also called a fecal occult blood test: A test to…
- Flail chest When enough ribs are broken (usually from a crush injury) to compromise the rigidity of the chest wall. On…
- African trypanosomiasis See: African sleeping sickness
- Indian meal moth See: Meal moth