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Interleukins
Substances used in biological therapy. Interleukins stimulate the growth and activities of certain kinds of white blood cells
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- PAS 1. Physician-assisted suicide. 2. Personal alert system (an alarm system for an elderly or infirm person). 3…
- Parkinson's disease Parkinson's disease: See: Parkinson disease.
- Five-lipoxygenase-activating protein See: FLAP
- Virus, JC JC virus
- Hysterectomy, abdominal Hysterectomy, abdominal: Surgical removal of the uterus through an incision made in the abdominal wall. As…
- Disease, hydroxyapatite crystal The inflammation caused by hydroxyapatite crystals has been referred to as hydroxyapatite crystal disease…
- SLS (Sjogren-Larsson syndrome) The Sjogren-Larsson syndrome is a genetic (inherited) disease usually characterized by a triad of clinical…
- Lenz microphthalmia syndrome A genetic disorder characterized by microphthalmia (small eye) or anopthalmia (no eye) associated with…
- Pneumocystis pneumonia One of the cells lining the alveoli (the air sacs) in the lung. The alveoli are, in fact, lined with two…
- Philadelphia chromosome (Ph) The chromosome abnormality that causes chronic myeloid leukemia (CML). Abbreviated as the Ph chromosome. The…
- Pseudoobstruction, neuropathic Intestinal pseudoobstruction caused by damage to nerve cells in the walls of the bowel