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- Midwife, direct-entry See: Direct-entry midwife
- Cannabis The botanical name for the plant from which marijuana comes. Its full name is Cannibis sativa. Use of…
- Parthenogenesis Development of a germ cell without fertilization. This is what happens in the formation of ovarian teratomas…
- VWM Leukoencephalopathy with vanishing white matter, an inherited brain disease that occurs mainly in children…
- Disease, Conor and Bruch African tick typhus, one of the tick-borne rickettsial diseases of the eastern hemisphere similar to Rocky…
- Mycobacterium A large family of bacteria that have unusually waxy cell walls that are resistant to digestion. The…
- Rabies Rabies: A potentially fatal viral infection that attacks the central nervous system. The rabies virus is…
- Hypomanic Affected by hypomania, a condition similar to mania but less severe. Hypomanic episodes may resemble manic…
- Postmenopausal cervical kyphosis An outward curvature (kyphosis) of the cervical vertebrae (the bones of the neck), creating a hump at the…
- DNA repair pathway The sequence of steps in the repair of DNA. Each step is governed by an enzyme.