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MRSI
Magnetic resonance spectroscopic imaging
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- Antisocial personality disorder Antisocial personality disorder: A pervasive pattern of disregard for and violation of the rights of others…
- Supertaster A supertaster has an unusually large density of taste buds, each surrounded by pain fibers
- Fabry disease A genetic disease due to deficiency of the enzyme alpha-galactosidase A. This enzyme is essential to the…
- Monitor, Holter See: Holter monitor
- DSM Abbreviation for the 'Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders,' a comprehensive classification…
- Penetrance The likelihood a given gene will result in disease. For example, if half (50%) of the people with the…
- Hyoglossus The muscle that permits the tongue to be held on the floor of the mouth
- Antithyroid antibody An antibody directed against the thyroid gland, a gland which produces thyroid hormones (such as, for…
- Radius In anatomy, the radius is the smaller of the two bones on the thumb side of the forearm. (The bigger one is…
- Inbreeding The mating of two closely related persons. Also called consanguinity.