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Herpesvirus
One of a family of double-stranded DNA viruses that cause common infections in humans. These include: herpes, CMV, chickenpox, shingles, mono, measles, and Kaposi sarcoma. The herpesviruses may live latently in a person for years or even…
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Show more- Menangle virus A virus that causes a disease first found in a piggery near Sydney, Australia in 1997. The virus was highly…
- Glucocentric Focused on glucose, particularly to the exclusion of other factors. As in 'We have a body of evidence and the…
- Graves disease Generalized diffuse overactivity ('toxicity') of the entire thyroid gland which becomes enlarged into a…
- Saphenous vein The saphenous veins -- there are two, the great and the small saphenous veins - serve as the principal veins…
- IVC 1. Intravenous cholangiogram, an X-ray study of the gallbladder. 2. Inferior vena cava, the largest vein…
- Quickening The moment during pregnancy when the baby is first felt to move
- Cell, fat A cell containing fat. Also called an adipocyte. A fat cell, or adipocyte, is a connective tissue cell that…
- Malignant 1. Tending to be severe and become progressively worse, as in malignant hypertension. 2. In regard to a…
- Scan, CAT Pictures of structures within the body created by a computer that takes the data from multiple X-ray images…
- Pain, shoulder See: Shoulder pain
- Conformational radiation therapy A procedure that uses computers to create a 3-dimensional picture of the tumor in order to target the tumor…
- Mononucleotide A single base pair. A trinucleotide (a triplet of base pairs) may be split into a dinucleotide and a…