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Myelodysplastic syndrome
A group of bone marrow disorders characterized by the underproduction of one or more types of blood cells due to dysfuntion of the marrow. The myelodysplastic syndromes (MDS) may arise de novo (newly) or be secondary to treatment with…
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Show more- Diplopia The condition in which a single object appears as two objects. Also called 'double vision.' From the Greek…
- EC 1. Endocannabinoid.2. Extracranial.3. Embryonal carcinoma
- Multicellular Consisting of more than one cell. Humans are multicellular and have been estimated to possess 100,000 billion…
- Humerus The long bone in the arm which extends from the shoulder to the elbow.
- Stickler's syndrome See: Stickler syndrome
- Growth hormone A hormone made in the pituitary gland that stimulates the release of another hormone called somatomedin by…
- Ependymoma A type of brain tumor derived from the cells that line the cavities within the ventricles of the brain and…
- Disc Shortened terminology for an intervertebral disc, a disk-shaped piece of specialized tissue that separates…
- Headache, Hogwarts See: Hogwarts headache
- Mineralocorticoids A group of hormones (the most important being aldosterone) that regulate the balance of water and…
- AT (in DNA) AT stands for adenine and thymine, a base pair in DNA. The other base pair in DNA is GC (guanine and cytosine)
- CCK Cholecystokinin