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Serendipity
An accidental and fortunate discovery. Not all good medical research by any means is done by design. Some is by serendipity, pure good luck. A celebrated instance of serendipity in biomedical research took place in 1928 at St Mary's…
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Show more- Papilla of Vater See: Ampulla of Vater
- Zidovudine Zidovudine: See: AZT.
- Nebulization, heated Administration of medication via fine spray that has been heated to increase its water content
- Akinetic Without movement (or without much movement). A term used in neurology to denote the absence (or poverty) of…
- Leuko- Prefix meaning white, as in leukocyte (white blood cell). Leuko- comes from the Greek 'leukos' meaning white…
- Beef tapeworm Taenia saginata, the most common of the big tapeworms that parasitizes people, contracted from infected raw…
- Herbicide chemical 2,4-DCP A poisonous chemical used to produce a herbicide. 2,4-DCP (short for 2,4-dichlorophenol) is employed in the…
- Williams syndrome See: Circle of Willis.
- Mononeuropathy A disorder of a single nerve or nerve trunk. Mononeuropathies may be due to entrapment, compression, stretch…
- Talipes Clubfoot. The Latin word talipes was compounded from talus (ankle) + pes (foot) since, with the common…
- Jaundice, hemolytic Jaundice, hemolytic: Jaundice caused by destruction of red blood cells. This can be an inborn condition…
- Evolutionarily conserved gene A gene that has remained essentially unchanged throughout evolution. Conservation of a gene indicates that it…