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MDR
Minimal daily requirement. Multidrug resistant
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Show more- Thrombocytosis See thrombocythemia
- Shock, spinal Shock caused by injury to the spinal cord
- Sight, day Night blindness. Listed in medical dictionaries under 'Nyctalopia' from the Greek 'nyct' (night) + 'aloas'…
- Photokeratitis A burn of the cornea (the clear front surface of the eye) by ultraviolet B rays (UVB). Also called radiation…
- Cyst A cyst is an abnormal, closed sac-like structure within a tissue that contains a liquid, gaseous, or…
- Ligament, anterior cruciate See: Anterior cruciate ligament
- Enzyme, lysosomal An enzyme in an organelle (a little organ) called the lysosome within the cell. Lysosomal enzymes degrade…
- Venereal disease A disease that is contracted and transmitted by sexual contact, caused by microorganisms that survive on the…
- Genome, Haemophilus influenzae See: H. flu genome
- System, immune A complex system that is responsible for distinguishing us from everything foreign to us, and for protecting…
- Winter depression See: Tooth, wisdom.
- Transplant, liver See: Liver transplant