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Variolation
The old practice of inoculating someone with the virus of smallpox to produce immunity to the disease. Lady Mary Wortley Montagu introduced this practice into England from Turkey in 1721. Unfortunately, the identification of a suitable…
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Show more- Arthroscope A thin flexible fiberoptic scope which is introduced into a joint space through a small incision in order to…
- Complementary DNA 1. Anemia at birth. 2. Synonym for Rh incompatibility.
- Pericardial effusion Too much fluid within the pericardium, the fibrous sac that surrounds the heart. The pericardium normally…
- Hirudotherapy The use of leeches for medical therapy. Sometimes referred to as the 'treatment that sucks.' From hirudin…
- Tyrosinemia type II A metabolic genetic disease due to deficiency of the enzyme tyrosine transaminase. The disease is…
- ACL injury See: Anterior cruciate injury
- Deficiency, GALT Lack of the enzyme called GALT (galactose-1-phosphate uridyl transferase) which causes the genetic metabolic…
- Control (genetic) The control of gene expression. Genetic control may be on the transcriptional or translational level…
- False rib One of the last 5 pairs of ribs. A rib is said to be 'false' if it does not attach to the sternum (the breast…
- Midnight children Term applied sometimes to children with xeroderma pigmentosum, a genetic disease with such extraordinary…
- Microtubule motor protein A protein that plays a role in spindle assembly and function or in chromosome movement during meiosis or…
- PPMA (post-polio muscular atrophy) Late muscle wasting that occurs as part of the post-polio syndrome (PPS), a constellation of symptoms and…