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Toxic agent syndrome
See: Toxic syndrome
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- Transforming principle Name originally given to DNA. In 1944 Avery, MacLeod, and McCarty published their discovery that the…
- Fecal incontinence Fecal incontinence: Inability to hold feces in the rectum. This is due to failure of voluntary control over…
- Cell, antigen-presenting A cell that can 'present' antigen in a form that T cells can recognize it. The cells that can 'present'…
- Pacemaker, artificial A device that uses electrical impulses to regulate the heart rhythm or to reproduce that rhythm. An internal…
- Crohn enterocolitis See: Crohn disease
- Anteroposterior From front to back. When a chest x-ray is taken with the back against the film plate and the x-ray machine in…
- Orchiectomy The surgical removal of one or both testes.
- NAME syndrome Acronym for Nevi, Atrial myxoma, Myxoid neurofibroma, and Ephelides. Now included in the Carney complex. See…
- Regulatory gene A gene that regulates the expression of other genes. A regulatory gene is a nosy gene whose prime…
- Fear of heights An abnormal and persistent fear of heights. Sufferers experience severe anxiety even though they realize as a…