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Framingham Study
A landmark study begun in 1948 in which some 12,000 residents of the town of Framingham, Massachusetts were enrolled in a study designed to gather medical data and, more recently, DNA samples. The participants in the Framingham study came…
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- Nyctophobia Pathological fear of the dark, an abnormal and persistent dread of the dark. Sufferers experience anxiety…
- Culture A culture is the propagation of microorganisms in a growth media. Any body tissue or fluid can be evaluated…
- Exopeptidase An enzyme that catalyzes the cleavage of the terminal (last) or next-to-last peptide bond from a polypeptide…
- Blood pressure, low Any blood pressure that is below the normal expected for an individual in a given environment. Low blood…
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- Super spreader A highly infectious person who spreads the agent of an infectious disease to many other people. The historic…
- Autosomal Pertaining to a chromosome that is not a sex chromosome; relating to any one of the chromosomes save the sex…
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