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Acute phase reactant
See: Acute-phase protein
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- Glass eye 1. A globe of glass that looks like and is intended to replace the eyeball.2. By extension, a real eye that…
- Spectrophobia An abnormal and persistent fear of ghosts. Sufferers of spectrophobia experience undue anxiety even though…
- Hair-on-end skull Thin fine linear extensions radiating out from the skull that look on an X-ray like hair standing 'on-end'…
- Horizontal A chemical substance produced in the body that controls and regulates the activity of certain cells or…
- Heroin Semisynthetic drug derived from morphine. Discovered in 1874, it was introduced commercially in 1898 by the…
- Reticulocyte count The number of reticulocytes (young red blood cells) circulating in blood, usually less than 1% of the total…
- Contig Contiguous sequence of DNA created by assembling overlapping sequenced fragments of a chromosome. A group of…
- Antibody cross reactivity The ability of an antibody to react with similar antigenic sites on different proteins
- Syndrome, Barlow Barlow syndrome is mitral valve prolapse (also known as 'click murmur syndrome'), the most common heart valve…