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Birth cohort
A group of people born during a particular period or year
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- Respiratory insufficiency The condition in which the lungs cannot take in sufficient oxygen or expell sufficient carbon dioxide to meet…
- Gyrus occipitotemporalis medialis See: Lingual gyrus
- Beta blocker A class of drugs that block beta-adrenergic substances such as adrenaline (epinephrine) in the 'sympathetic'…
- Sweating The act of secreting fluid from the skin by the sweat (sudoriferous) glands. These are small tubular glands…
- John Hughlings Jackson See: Hughlings Jackson, John
- Vein, hepatic One of the veins which drains blood from the liver
- Cm (centimeter) A unit of measure in the metric system which is 1/100'th of a meter. There are 2.54 centimeters (cms) in one…
- Randomize To use chance alone to assign or arrange. For example, the investigators may randomize the participants in a…
- Makeup, permanent See: Permanent makeup
- Marriage, cousin A form of consanguinity. Everyone carries recessive alleles, genes that are generally innocuous in the…