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Amino acid, nonessential
An amino acid that can be made by humans and so is not essential to the human diet. There are 11 nonessential amino acids: alanine, arginine, asparagine, aspartic acid, cysteine, glutamic acid, glutamine, glycine, proline, serine, and…
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- Cranial nerve VI The sixth cranial nerve is the abducent nerve. It is a small motor nerve that has one task: to supply a…
- Trauma center A specialized facility in a hospital that is designed to provide diagnostic and treatment services for trauma…
- Poikiloderma atrophicans with cataract Better known as the Rothmund-Thomson syndrome, this is an hereditary disease characterized by progressive…
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- Morton disease See: Morton's neuroma
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- Pharmacist A professional who fills prescriptions, and in the case of a compounding pharmacist, makes them. Pharmacists…