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FISH
Abbreviation for fluorescence in situ hybridization, a molecular technique used in chromosome studies. FISH employs fluorescent (fluorescein tags) that glow under ultraviolet light to detect the hybridization (the combination) of molecular…
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Show more- Cystectomy Surgery to remove the bladder. Cystic fibrosis: A common genetic disease inherited as a recessive condition…
- Reabsorption Absorbing again. For example, the kidney selectively reabsorbs substances such as glucose, proteins, and…
- Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) Every prescription written in the United States bears a DEA number, that of the prescribing doctor, the DEA…
- Safer sex See: Safe sex
- Single-blind Term used to described a study in which either the investigator or the participant, but not both of them, is…
- Bronchitis Bronchitis: Inflammation and swelling of the bronchi. Bronchitis can be acute or chronic. Chronic bronchitis…
- Paget disease of the breast The combination of scaly skin changes of the nipple resembling eczema and an underlying cancer of the breast…
- Idiopathic nephrotic syndrome of childhood See: Minimal change disease
- PTU Propylthiouracil, an antithyroid medication, a drug that blocks the production of thyroid hormone by the…
- Cryo-EM Cryo-electron microscopy
- Pulmonary Having to do with the lungs. (The word comes from the Latin pulmo for lung).
- Neurone A variant spelling of neuron. Sometimes preferred in the UK, as in 'His suffering from motor neurone disease…