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BI): One of the National Institutes of Health in the U.S., the NHLBI's mission is to 'provide leadership for a national research program in diseases of the heart, blood vessels, lungs, and blood and in transfusion medicine through support…
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Show more- Incontinence of urine Inability to hold urine in the bladder. This is due to failure of voluntary control over the urinary…
- Macular hole A hole in the macula, the tiny oval area made up of millions of nerve cells located at the center of the…
- PXE See pseudoxanthoma elasticum
- Fibroblast A cell ubiquitous in connective tissue that makes and secretes collagen
- Basophilic leukocyte See: Basophil
- Vasodilators Agents that act as blood vessel dilators (vasodilators) and open vessels by relaxing their muscular walls…
- Truncate To shorten, to cut short. A malformation (birth defect) may truncate a limb. A mutation may create a stop…
- Aid, vibrotactile See: Vibrotactile aid
- Kinesin A family of microtubule motor proteins active in mitosis. The kinesins use chemical energy from the…
- Carcinoma, pancreatic See: Pancreatic cancer
- Chandipura virus A virus that causes fever, symptoms similar to those of flu, and acute encephalitis (inflammation of the…
- Undifferentiated cancer Cancer: A cancer in which the cells are very immature and 'primitive' and do not look like cells in the…