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Neuroendocrine
Having to do with neuroendocrinology: the interactions between the nervous system and the endocrine system
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- Body surface area BSA. The total suface area of the human body. The BSA is used in many measurements in medicine, including the…
- TSE Abbreviation for Transmissible spongiform encephalopathy
- Hypertrophy Enlargement or overgrowth of an organ or part of the body due to the increased size of the constituent cells…
- Holandric inheritance Inheritance of genes on the Y chromosome. Since only males normally have a Y chromosome, Y-linked genes can…
- Eosinophilia, familial See: Familial eosinophilia
- Taenia In medicine, taenia is a genus (group) of large tapeworms some of which are parasitic in humans. In anatomy…
- Electrophysiologic Pertaining to electrophysiology
- Artery spasm, coronary See: Coronary artery spasm
- Clone Literally a fragment, the word in modern medical science has come to mean a replica, for example, of a group…
- Salvage therapy 1. A final treatment for people who are nonresponsive to or cannot tolerate other available therapies for a…