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Interleukin-4
A protein that stimulates the immune system to develop mast cells, resting T-cells, and activated B-cells. Abbreviated IL-4
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- Facioscapulohumeral muscular dystrophy A form of muscular dystrophy that typically begins before age 20 with slowly progressive weakness of the…
- ID See: Yttrium Y 90 ibritumomab tiuxetan.
- Ventricle, third >Lateral ventricles: The lateral ventricles are in the cerebral hemispheres, one in each hemisphere. Each…
- Syndrome, Creutzfeldt-Jakob Better known as Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD). A dementing disease of the brain. It is believed due to an…
- Iatr- Prefix relating to a physician or medicine. An iatrogenic illness is one inadvertently caused by a physician…
- JPC Juvenile polyposis coli. See: Juvenile polyposis
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- Enzyme defect A disorder resulting from a deficiency (or functional abnormality) of an enzyme. In 1902 Archibald Garrod…
- Heritability The degree to which something is inherited.