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Ergophobia
An abnormal and persistent fear of work. Sufferers of ergophobia experience undue anxiety about the workplace environment even though they realize their fear is irrational. Their fear may actually be a combination of fears, such fear of…
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- Chain-termination codon A set of three adjacent bases in the DNA or their complementary bases in messenger RNA that specifies the end…
- Footdrop See Foot-drop
- Brachytherapy, coronary artery A slow heart rate, usually defined as less than 60 beats per minute. The word bradycardia is logically…
- Flax seed The seed of the common flax plant (also known as linseed and, botanically, Linum usitatissimum). Flax seed…
- Randomized controlled trial (RCT) A study in which people are allocated at random (by chance alone) to receive one of several clinical…
- PARK7 Familial Parkinson disease type 7
- Necropsy A postmortem examination or autopsy. Necropsies have been done for more than 2,000 years but during most of…
- PFT Pulmonary function test, a test designed to measure how well the lungs are working. PFTs gauge how the lungs…
- X chromosome inactivation See: X inactivation
- Upregulation An increase in the number of receptors on the surface of target cells, making the cells more sensitive to a…
- Differential diagnosis The process of weighing the probability of one disease versus that of other diseases possibly accounting for…