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Five-lipoxygenase activating protein
See: FLAP
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Show more- Single upper palm line See: Simian crease
- Meninges The three membranes that cover the brain and spinal cord (singular: meninx). The outside meninx is called the…
- Mongolism Obsolete name for Down syndrome. Down syndrome refers to the 19th century English physician J. Langdon Down…
- Female gonad The female gonad, the ovary or 'egg sac', is one of a pair of reproductive glands in women. They are located…
- Range In medicine and statistics, the difference between the lowest and highest numerical values. For example, if…
- Central nervous system, spongy degeneration of the Also called Canavan disease, this is a severe progressive fatal inherited (genetic) disorder of the central…
- Flashing 'Flashing,' or exhibitionism is characterized by intense, sexually arousing fantasies, urges or behaviors…
- Disease, Vrolik's Osteogenesis imperfecta type II, an inherited connective tissue disorder with very severe bone fragility, the…
- Rib, false One of the last 5 pairs of ribs. A rib is said to be 'false' if it does not attach to the sternum (the breast…
- Hypertension, pulmonary See: Pulmonary hypertension
- Functional hemispherectomy A functional hemispherectomy is a variation of a hemispherectomy, a radical procedure in which one entire…
- Rattlesnake bite A poisonous bite by a member of the pit viper family. All rattlesnakes are venomous and secrete poisonous…