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Parasitemia
The presence of a parasite in the blood. For example, malarial parasitemia. Parasitemia is analogous to bacteremia (the presence of bacteria in the blood) and viremia (the presence of a virus in the blood). Parasitemia, bacteremia and…
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- Anesthesiology The branch of medicine specializing in the use of drugs or other agents that cause insensibility to pain…
- USDA US Department of Agriculture
- Alcohol abuse Use of alcoholic beverages to excess, either on individual occasions ('binge drinking') or as a regular…
- Molluscacide An agent capable of killing snails and other mollusks or of controlling their growth
- Randomize To use chance alone to assign or arrange. For example, the investigators may randomize the participants in a…
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- Necrotic Synonymous with dead. Necrotic tissue is dead tissue.
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- Analogous In anatomy, similar in appearance or function but otherwise different. Two structures may be analogous if…