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HAART
Stands for highly active antiretroviral therapy. Treatment with a very potent drug 'cocktail' to suppress the growth of HIV, the retrovirus responsible for AIDS
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- Nerve, trochlear The trochlear nerve controls the superior oblique muscle of the eye, one of the extraocular muscles, the…
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- Chiron In Greek mythology, the centaur who, wounded by Hercules, invented medicine in order to heal himself. Chiron…