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Hodgkin disease
British crystallographer and Nobel Prize winner (1910-1994). Dorothy Crowfoot, as she was born, was educated at Somerville College, Oxford. After a brief period as a postgraduate student at Cambridge University, she returned to Oxford in…
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- Quinsy Not a TV detective but an old word for a peritonsillar abscess. Whether you call it quinsy or a peritonsillar…
- Tube feeding See: Enteral nutrition
- Nerve, second cranial Also known as the optic nerve. This nerve connects the eye to the brain and carries the impulses formed by…
- Photorefractive keratectomy (PRK) A kind of laser eye surgery designed to change the shape of the cornea to eliminate (or reduce) the need for…
- Dermopathy Any disease of the skin. Synonymous with dermatopathy.
- FMRP As stated in the entry for FMR1, FMRP is an acronym composed of the first letters of Familial Mental…
- KB 1. The skin disease Keratodermia blennorrhagicum. 2. Kilobase of DNA. The preferred abbreviation for kilobase…
- Sagittal sinus A crucial large vein that goes over the top of the skull from front to back and then splits to take blood…
- SNCA The gene for alpha-synuclein
- Human herpesvirus 6 A herpes virus that apparently lies dormant in many people, human herpesvirus 6 is most likely to cause…
- Naltrexone treatment program Treatment of opiate addicts with naltrexone, a long-acting synthetic opiate antagonist with few side effects…