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Gaucher disease, type 1
Gaucher disease, type 1: The most common and best known form of Gaucher disease. It affects the spleen, liver, and bone marrow and spares the brain. The symptoms include enlargement of the spleen (usually the first sign), anemia, low blood…
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Show more- Sclerose en plaques French for multiple sclerosis. Literally, sclerosis in plaques
- Fanconi pancytopenia See Fanconi anemia
- Inhaler, metered-dose Not something that is contained in a will, but rather a gene, chromosome or genome that is transmitted from…
- Melittin The principal toxic component in bee venom. Melittin is a relatively short peptide consisting of 26 amino…
- DPT immunization Immunization to protect against diphtheria, pertussis (whooping cough), and tetanus. DPT immunizations are…
- Monte Carlo simulation A statistical method used in biomedical research, involving computer simulation in which data are randomly…
- Bellini duct carcinoma (BDC) A rare type of kidney cancer that begins in the duct of Bellini (a continuation of the collecting…
- Medicine, nuclear See: Nuclear medicine
- Kidney infection in children See: Urinary tract infection in children
- Histocompatible Literally, tissue compatible. If a donor and recipient are histocompatible, a transplant is expected to be…
- Smallpox vaccination of eye See Vaccinia keratitis
- Entamoeba histolytica The agent of amebic dysentery, a disorder with inflammation of the intestine and ulceration of the colon…