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Scutellaria
See: Scutellaria barbata
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- Carditis Inflammation of the heart
- Maneuver, Valsalva See: Valsalva maneuver
- NIAAA (Nat'l Inst. on Alcoh. Abuse and Alcoholism) Sm: The National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism is one of the National Institutes of Health (NIH)…
- Eat Right 4 Your Type Diet The Eat Right 4 Your Type Diet is a weight loss plan based upon the concept that your blood type (referring…
- Tick-borne disease >Babesiosis (a malaria-like infection) >Colorado tick fever (generally in the western US) >Ehrlichiosis >Lyme…
- African trypanosomiasis See: African sleeping sickness
- Homogentisic acid oxidase deficiency Alkaptonuria
- Molar In dentistry, a molar is one of the posterior teeth well adapted to grinding, in keeping with its origin from…
- Zygote The cell formed by the union of a male sex cell (a sperm) and a female sex cell (an ovum). The zygote…