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Wart
Wart: A local growth of the outer layer of the skin (the epidermis) caused by a virus. The virus of warts (a papillomavirus) is transmitted by contact. The contact can be with a wart on someone else or one on oneself (autoinoculation)…
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Show more- Therapy, human gene Insertion of normal DNA directly into cells to correct a genetic defect. The treatment of disease by…
- Ubiquitous Present everywhere. The small protein called ubiquitin was so-named because it is present in all types of…
- FFI Fatal familial insomnia
- Archaeology The scientific study of the material remains of past peoples. In archaeology today, a range of biological…
- Ligature In surgery, a filament or thread used to tie something, such a blood vessel to prevent it from bleeding or…
- Antigen, prostate specific See: PSA
- Acellular Not made up of cells or divided into cells. Or lacking intact cells as, for example, an acellular vaccine…
- Klippel-Feil phenotype See: Klippel-Feil sequence
- Malady From the French maladie for illness.
- Pancreas, artificial A machine that constantly measures glucose (sugar) in the blood and, in response to an elevated level of…
- Waardenburg, Petrus Johannes See: Stickler syndrome.
- PTSD Post-traumatic stress disorder. (The abbreviation PTSD has rapidly gained in popularity because saying…