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Jakob-Creutzfeldt disease
A transmissible degenerative brain disorder technically termed spongiform encephalopathy. Eating 'mad cow' meat or squirrel brain can lead to Jaqcob-Creuzfeldt-like disease. Jakob-Creutzfeldt disease, better known as Creutzfeldt-Jakob…
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- Gray A unit of absorbed radiation equal to the dose of one joule of energy absorbed per kilogram of matter, or 100…
- Prayer of Maimonides A prayer that is said to have been written by the 12th-century physician-philosopher Moses Maimonides. Like…
- Visceral Referring to the viscera, the internal organs of the body, specifically those within the chest (as the heart…
- Hepatitis E virus The agent responsible for hepatitis E. Abbreviated HEV. For more information, see: Hepatitis E
- Chronic bronchitis Defined clinically as a daily cough with production of sputum for 3 months, two years in a row. In chronic…
- Gynecology The branch of medicine particularly concerned with the health of the female organs of reproduction and…
- Virus, attenuated To attenuate is to weaken or to make (or become) thin. The word derives from a combination of the Latin…
- Somatotropin Growth hormone, a polypeptide containing 191 amino acids, produced by the anterior pituitary, the front…
- Medicine, family Also called family practice. The medical specialty which provides continuing and comprehensive health care…
- Extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO) A life support system that circulates the blood through an oxygenating system. ECMO is like a…
- Uracil (U) A nucleotide base and one member of the A-U (adenine-uracil) base pair in RNA. The other base pair in RNA is…