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Succumb
To lose the will to oppose something or to give up and accept something that you first opposed. In the context of illness, to succumb to an illness is to stop opposing it, to no longer battle it, but to die from it. Succumbing, like…
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Show more- Virulence The ability of any agent of infection to produce disease. The virulence of a microorganism (such as a…
- Runx-1 A protein that is a transcription factor controlling when genes are switched on or off. Runx-1 acts by…
- Infarction The formation of an infarct, an area of tissue death due to a local lack of oxygen. For example, in a…
- Smoking, passive The inhaling of environmental tobacco smoke (ETS) by someone who is not smoking. See: ETS
- Henna A coloring made from the leaves of the Egyptian privet, Lawsonia inermis. Approved only for use as a hair…
- Doctor discontent See: Physician discontent
- Consumption An old and once common term for wasting away of the body, particularly from pulmonary tuberculosis (TB)…
- Wesil See: Weasand
- Paresis, general A part of late ('tertiary') syphilis a decade or more after the initial infection, due to chronic…
- LMP Abbreviation for 'last menstrual period.' By convention, pregnancies are dated in weeks starting from the…
- Syndrome, Klippel-Feil See: Klippel-Feil sequence
- PCB See: PCBs