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Hydroxytryptamine
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- Fever, Rift Valley See: Rift Valley fever
- Albumin The main protein in human blood and the key to the regulation of the osmotic pressure of blood. Chemically…
- Extrauterine Outside the uterus (the womb). As opposed to intrauterine: inside the uterus. For example, normal pregnancies…
- Infectious mono See infectious mononucleosis.
- Musculus The Latin for muscle. Plural: musculi. In anatomy and many medical textbooks and dictionaries, the muscles…
- Eidetic 1. Marked by extraordinarily accurate and vivid recall, especially of images. 2. By extension, an individual…
- International unit (IU) An international unit (IU) is an internationally accepted amount of a substance. This type of measure is used…
- Perfusion A chemotherapy technique that may be used when melanoma occurs on an arm or leg. The flow of blood to and…
- STL3 Stickler syndrome, type III. See: Stickler syndrome
- TNF Tumor necrosis factor