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Asparagine
An amino acid, one of the 20 building blocks of protein. Asparagine is nonessential to the diet since the body can synthesize it. Asparagine is important to the metabolism of ammonia. It was the first amino acid to be isolated from a…
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- Hemorrhagic fever, epidemic A number of diseases characterized by an abrupt onset of high fever and chills, headache, cold and cough, and…
- H (drug caution code) Abbreviation standing for habitforming on a medication that indicates caution because the medication may…
- Essential vulvodynia A chronic, diffuse, unremitting sensation of burning of the vulva -- (the female external genital organs…
- Keratolytic Pertaining to keratolysis, the softening and shedding of the horny outer layer of the skin. A keratolytic…
- Cerebral vascular disease See: Cerebrovascular disease
- Anemia, Cooley's Anemia, Cooley's: Better known today as thalassemia (or as beta thalassemia or thalassemia major). The…
- Maternal phenylketonuria A mother with the genetic disease phenylketonuria (PKU) whose high blood levels of phenylalanine (phe) are…
- Walleyed 1. Having exotropia -- divergent strabismus -- in which the eyes turn outward away from the nose. The…
- Juvenile chronic myelogenous leukemia See: Juvenile myelomonocytic leukemia
- Sublingual Underneath the tongue. A sublingual medication is a type of lozenge put under the tongue where it dissolves…
- Subdeltoid Beneath the deltoid, the large muscle that stretches from the clavicle (collarbone) to the humerus (the long…