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Adenomatous polyposis coli
See: APC (meaning 3)
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- Neuroscientist A scientist who studies the nervous system, including the neural basis of behavior; parts of the nervous…
- Brain, water on the See: Water on the brain
- Deficiency, fatty alcohol: NAD+ oxidoreductase Also known as the Sjogren-Larsson syndrome, this is a genetic (inherited) disease usually characterized by a…
- Speech therapist An older term for a speech- language pathologist
- Refractory anemia Anemia (a shortage of red blood cells) unresponsive to treatment
- Immunization, MMR The standard vaccine given to prevent measles, mumps and rubella (German measles). The MMR vaccine is now…
- Collapsing pulse See: Pulse, water hammer
- Palliation To palliate a disease is to treat it partially and insofar as possible, but not cure it completely…
- Endopeptidase An enzyme that catalyzes the cleavage of peptide bonds within a polypeptide or protein. Peptidase refers to…
- Conservative mutation A change in a DNA or RNA sequence that leads to the replacement of one amino acid with a biochemically…