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Fever, West Nile
Fever, West Nile: A febrile disease caused by the West Nile virus that is transmitted from birds to the common Culex mosquito and then to people. The virus is named after the area it was first found in Uganda. West Nile fever occurs in…
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Show more- Roentgen An international unit of X-radiation or gamma-radiation. Abbreviated R. Named for Wilhelm Roentgen
- Arthritis, degenerative A type of arthritis caused by inflammation, breakdown, and eventual loss of the cartilage of the joints. Also…
- Biological safety level 2 Level 2 biosafety
- Deficiency, FALDH Also known as the Sjogren-Larsson syndrome, this is a genetic (inherited) disease usually characterized by a…
- Cholesterol Cholesterol: The most common type of steroid in the body, cholesterol has gotten something of a bad name…
- Cryopreservation The process of cooling and storing cells, tissues, or organs at very low temperatures to maintain viability…
- Public mourning The public display of grief. This may take many forms ranging from the very formal to the very informal, from…
- Blockers, beta A class of drugs that block beta-adrenergic substances such as adrenaline (epinephrine), a key agent in the…
- Cranial nerve VIII The eighth cranial nerve is the vestibulocochlear nerve. The vestibulocochlear nerve is responsible for the…
- Analytic specificity How well an assay detects only a specific substance and does not detect closely related substances
- Oocyte A female germ cell in the process of development. The oocyte is produced in the ovary by an ancestral cell…
- D-dimer A fragment produced during the degradation of a clot. The D here stands for domain. Dimer indicates two…