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Crack (drug)
The street name given to cocaine that has been processed from cocaine hydrochloride to a ready-to-use free base for smoking. Rather than requiring the more volatile method of processing cocaine using ether, crack cocaine is processed with…
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- Mastocyte A mast cell
- Motherese The language spoken, all over the world, by mothers to their babies, before and after birth. Motherese is the…
- ODD syndrome Oculodentodigital dysplasia
- Bones of the leg, ankle and foot Are 62 lower extremity bones. They consist of 10 hip and leg, 14 ankle and 38 foot bones. > >The 10 hip and…
- Ameba Also amoeba. A single-celled (protozoan) organism that constantly changes shape. The word 'ameba' is from the…
- Panic disorder Panic disorder: A disorder characterized by sudden attacks of fear and panic. The episodes may resemble a…
- Lead-based paint Paint or other surface coatings that, by definition, contain lead in excess of 1.0 milligrams per square…
- Macrocephaly, multiple lipomas, and hemangiomas Bannayan syndrome, a genetic disease characterized by macrocephaly (enlarged head), multiple lipomas (benign…
- Arrhythmia An abnormal heart rhythm. In an arrhythmia the heartbeats may be too slow, too rapid, too irregular, or too…
- Genome, Mus musculus All of the genetic information contained in Mus musculus, the laboratory mouse. The genomes of particular…