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Orthopod
Slang for orthopedist.
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- Anticoagulant agent A medication used as a 'blood-thinner' to prevent the formation of blood clots and to maintain open blood…
- Pyoderma gangrenosum An ulcerating condition of the skin leading to hollowed-out areas (ulcers) with heaped-up borders and a…
- CADASIL Cerebral Autosomal Dominant Arteriopathy with Subcortical Infarcts and Leukoencephalopathy. An inherited form…
- Glucocerebrosidase deficiency Causes type 1 Gaucher disease, a progressive genetic disease due to an enzyme defect. The enzyme…
- Nucleocaspid The genome plus the protein coat of a viral. The genome is nucleic acid. The protein coat is the capsid. The…
- Study, electrophysiologic See: Framingham Study.
- Thoracic vertebrae The 12 thoracic vertebrae are situated between the cervical (neck) vertebrae and the lumbar vertebrae. The…
- Section, longitudinal A cut along the long axis of a structure
- Metagene A pattern of gene expression. Not an actual gene. 'We identified aggregate patterns of gene expression…
- Syndrome, Perrault See: Perrault syndrome
- National Program of Cancer Registries A program administered in the US by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) since 1994 that…