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- Skin graft, allogeneic A skin graft transplanted between people who are not genetically identical. Also called an allograft. An…
- Epidemiology, classical The study of populations in order to determine the frequency and distribution of disease and measure risks.
- Stress Stress: Forces from the outside world impinging on the individual. Stress is a normal part of life that can…
- Headache, hypnic See: Hypnic headache
- Abortion, spontaneous A miscarriage, that is, any pregnancy that is not viable (the fetus cannot survive) or in which the fetus is…
- Anemia, congenital See: Congenital anemia
- Bayes theorem A probability principle set forth by the English mathematician Thomas Bayes (1702-1761). Bayes' theorem is of…
- RTT (Rett syndrome) See Rett syndrome
- Beijerinck, Martinus W. (1851-1931) Dutch microbiologist who was the first person to use the term 'virus' for the invisible…