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Nexus
A connection or link. A causal connection. A connected series. 'Nexus' comes from the Latin 'nectere' meaning 'to bind.' The same Latin root gave rise to 'connect' and 'annex.' 'Nexus' achieved some currency as the title of a book by Henry…
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Show more- Infant mineral requirements Minerals (calcium, phosphorus, magnesium, iron, iodine, copper and zinc) and trace elements (manganese…
- Demarcation A setting of limits; a boundary; marking the limits of, delimiting; setting apart, separating. The word…
- Vitamin D A steroid vitamin which promotes the intestinal absorption and metabolism of calcium and phosphorus. Under…
- Genetic discrimination The potential use of genetic information to discriminate against people in the workplace, in health…
- Ligand A molecule that binds to another. Often, a soluble molecule such as a hormone or neurotransmitter that binds…
- Forensics, DNA DNA:See: DNA forensics
- Foot-drop Dropping of the front of the foot due to weakness or paralysis of the anterior muscles of the lower leg…
- Colinear Arranged in the same linear order. See: Colinearity
- Atelectasis Failure of full expansion of the lung at birth or a collapse thereafter of the lung. The word comes from the…
- Neuralgia, migrainous A distinctive syndrome of headaches, today better known as cluster headache. There are two main clinical…
- Syndrome, Bloch-Sulzberger Also known as incontinentia pigmenti (IP). A genetic disease with blisters that develop soon after birth on…
- Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy See: Giant hypertrophic gastritis.