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Disease, Anderson-Fabry
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- National Institute of General Medical Sciences MS): One of the National Institutes of Health in the U.S., NIGMS's mission is to 'support basic biomedical…
- Cancer registry A register designed to collect information about the occurrence (incidence) of cancer, the types of cancers…
- Inflammatory response A fundamental type of response by the body to disease and injury, a response characterized by the classical…
- Paralysis, infantile (polio) Infantile paralysis is an old synonym for poliomyelitis, an acute and sometimes devastating viral disease…
- Genome, Bos taurus See: Bovine genome
- Rate, neonatal mortality The number of children dying under 28 days of age divided by the number of live births that year. The…
- Vaginoscopy The use of a viewing instrument to visualize the vaginal canal. Most commonly, a form of endoscope is used in…
- Skin test for immunity A method of evaluating whether a person has developed an immune response to certain infections. A substance…