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Salubrious
Good for the health. Healthy. Promoting health or well-being. Wholesome. For example, smog is far from salubrious. From the Latin salubris, from salus (health), ultimately from Indo-European root sol- (whole), the source also of the word…
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- Interleukin-3 A protein that stimulates the immune system to develop mast cells and bone-marrow cells. Abbreviated IL-3
- Malleability, brain See Neuroplasticity
- False vocal fold See: False vocal cord
- Stenosis, pulmonary The pulmonary valve is too tight so that the flow of blood from the right ventricle of the heart into the…
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- Diffuse mastocytosis A form of mastocytosis in which the entire skin is thickened and leathery with generalized reddening and…