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- Medical school, first American See: First American medical school
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- Nonpathogenic Incapable of causing disease. Nonpathogenic bacteria are harmless. By contrast, pathogenic bacteria can cause…
- Doula 1. A non-medical assistant in childbirth. A doula is not the father but is usually a woman who is experienced…
- Barlow syndrome Barlow syndrome is mitral valve prolapse (also known as 'click murmur syndrome'), the most common heart valve…
- Cascade A sequence of successive activation reactions involving enzymes (enzyme cascade) or hormones (hormone…
- Abraham-man Also abram-man. One of a class of beggars who once wandered over England after the dissolution of the…
- Louse-borne typhus See: Typhus, epidemic
- Excrescence An oral antiestrogen. Exemestane inhibits the enzyme aromatase in the adrenal glands that produces the…
- Endarterectomy An operation to clean out an artery and restore normal blood flow through the artery. An endarterectomy is…