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Piperine
A pungent alkaloid that is concentrated in the outer skin of pepper berries (which gives pepper much of its bite) and is found in other spices and vegetables including jalapeno peppers. Piperine is used as a flavoring and as an…
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Show more- X-ray, PA An X-ray picture in which the beams pass from back-to-front (posteroanterior). By contrast an AP…
- Disease, fifth See Gaucher disease, type 1.
- Microvascular Pertaining to the microvasculature, the portion of the vasculature of the body consisting of the smaller…
- Talipes Clubfoot. The Latin word talipes was compounded from talus (ankle) + pes (foot) since, with the common…
- Caspase 3 An enzyme that plays a key role in programmed cell death, or apoptosis. Caspase 3 has been called the…
- Semiallogeneic Sharing some but not all genes, as in parent-child relationships. Individuals are allogeneic when their genes…
- Torus fracture A fracture in which one side of the bone bends, but does not actually break. Torus fractures normally heal on…
- Ascending pathway A nerve pathway that goes upward from the spinal cord toward the brain carrying sensory information from the…
- Urinary tract infection Infection of the kidney, ureter, bladder, or urethra. Not everyone with a UTI has symptoms. Common symptoms…
- Biochemical aspirin resistance The inability of aspirin to produce an anticipated effect on one or more tests of platelet function, such as…
- Infectious Diseases, Nat'l Institute of Allergy & See Hepatitis A.
- Talipes equinovarus The common ('classic') form of clubfoot. Talipes is made up of the Latin talus (ankle) + pes (foot). Equino-…