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Secondary cataract
See: Cataract, secondary
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- Phage Short for bacteriophage, a virus that lives within a bacteria. A virus for which the natural host is a…
- Citrulline A non-standard amino acid that is not normally present in protein. Citrulline is created in the body as an…
- Hair, exclamation point Exclamation point hair is a key diagnostic finding in a disorder called alopecia areata. Alopecia areata is…
- Catalepsy The state of persisting in unusual postures or facial expressions, regardless of outside stimuli, as is seen…
- Rheumatoid spondylitis See: Ankylosing spondylitis
- Corneal topography Also known as videokeratography or corneal mapping, corneal topography is a method of computer-assisted…
- Reading frame One of the three possible ways to read a nucleotide sequence in DNA or RNA as a series of nonoverlapping…
- Syndrome, Aarskog-Scott See: Aarskog-Scott syndrome
- Surveillance and containment See: Ring vaccination
- Proxi- Toward the beginning, the nearer of two (or more) items. For example, the proximal end of the femur is part…