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Crime scene investigation
The use of physical evidence at the scene of the crime and the use of deductive and inductive reasoning to gain knowledge of the events surrounding the crime. Crime scene investigation is multidisciplinary and involves a systematic search…
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- Ataxia-telangiectasia A progressive neurodegenerative genetic disease characterized by cerebellar ataxia (incoordination and lack…
- Effects, fetal rubella The constellation of abnormalities, also called the rubella syndrome, caused by infection with the rubella…
- Variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease Variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease: Abbreviated vCJD. A human disease thought due to the same infectious agent…
- Inspissate To thicken. Inspissated bile is thickened bile
- Infantile systemic hyalinosis A genetic disorder characterized at birth or soon afterwards by painful swollen joint contractures and red…
- Acrocyanosis Blueness of the extremities (the hands and feet). Acrocyanosis is typically symmetrical. It is marked by a…
- M. leprae Mycobacterium leprae
- Bernard-Horner syndrome See: Horner syndrome
- American Journal of Public Health A monthly journal that publishes original research articles that are peer-reviewed in both 'general and…
- Breslow thickness A method for determining the prognosis with melanoma. The thickness of a melanoma is related to the 5-year…
- Turbinectomy Removal of a turbinate bone. The turbinate is a bone in the nose; it is an extension of the ethmoid bone, is…