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BMRs (biological response modifiers)
Substances that stimulate the body's response to infection and disease. The body naturally produces small amounts of these substances. Scientists can produce some of them in the laboratory in large amounts for use in treating cancer…
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Show more- Race An ethnic stock or division of humans. Naturalists and ethnographers have long divided humans into a variable…
- Midwife, certified nurse See: Certified nurse-midwife
- Cruciate ligament, anterior The knee joint is surrounded by a joint capsule with ligaments strapping the inside and outside of the joint…
- Gastric Having to do with the stomach
- Thyroglossal duct cyst Synonymous with a thyroglossal or thyrolingual cyst. See: Thyroglossal cyst
- Psychodynamic drug See: Psychotropic drug
- Antisense-strand RNA virus See: Negative-strand RNA virus
- Scanning electron microscope Abbreviated SEM. A microscope in which a finely focused beam of electrons is scanned across a specimen, and…
- Aniso- Unequal, unlike, or dissimilar. As in anisocoria, anisocytosis, and anisometropia. From the Greek anisos…
- Collapsed lung Failure of full expansion of a once fully expanded lung. Medically called atelectasis. The word comes from…
- Histiocyte A type of white blood cell, also called a macrophage, that is created by the bone marrow. They usually stay…
- Behcet's disease See: Behcet's syndrome