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Regenerate
To reproduce or renew something lost. For example, after an injury, the liver has the capacity to regenerate
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- Rheumatic heart disease Heart damage caused by rheumatic fever. Treatment is by preventing reinfection with strep and by treating…
- Hepatic duct, common See: Common hepatic duct
- Age of father See: Paternal age
- Xeroradiography The process of making a type of dry x-ray in which a picture of the body is recorded on paper rather than on…
- Paresis 1 Incomplete paralysis. 2 A form of neurosyphilis (syphilis affecting the central nervous system -- the brain…
- C-IBS Constipation-predominant IBS (irritable bowel syndrome)
- Prostatitis, chronic bacterial Prostatitis, chronic bacterial: Longstanding bacterial infection of the prostate gland superimposed on a…
- Yellow jacket sting A sting from a yellow jacket (or other large stinging insects such as bees, hornets and wasps) can trigger…
- Adipose most abundant gene transcript 1 Abbreviated APM1. The APM1 gene encodes the hormone adiponectin
- Cysticerci The plural of cysticercis. See: Cysticercus