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- Ileitis, terminal Crohn's disease, a chronic inflammatory disease of the intestine involving only the end of the small…
- Acetylcholine A key chemical in neurons (nerve cells) that acts as a neurotransmitter and carries information across the…
- Hepat- Having to do with the liver. Pronounced hi-'pa-tik. From the Latin hepaticus derived from the Greek hepar…
- Contiguous gene syndrome A disorder due to deletion of multiple gene loci that are adjacent to one another. Contiguous gene syndromes…
- Wymin An alternate spelling of wimmin
- Inbreeding, coefficient of A measure of how close two people are genetically to each another. The coefficient of inbreeding, symbolized…
- Hypoalbuminemia An abnormally low blood level of albumin. Normally, albumin is the most plentiful protein in human blood and…
- Nymph A nymph is a stage in the life cycle of certain arthropods, as ticks and lice. (Not all nymphs are in Greek…
- Plague bacterium genome All of the DNA (the genome) of the bacterium Yersinia pestis that causes the plague, consisting of four rings…
- DNA cloning The use of DNA manipulation procedures to produce multiple copies of a single gene or segment of DNA