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Show more- Soft ulcer See: Chancroid
- Macrophage inhibitory cytokine 1 See: MIC-1
- Arteriosclerotic aneurysm A localized widening (aneurysm) of a vessel that occurs because the vessel wall is weakened by…
- Biermer's anemia Anemia: A blood disorder caused by a lack of vitamin B12. Patients who have this disorder do not produce the…
- Glucuronosyltransferase, UDP- A liver enzyme essential to the disposal of bilirubin (the chemical that results from the normal breakdown of…
- CT Abbreviation for: 1. Cognitive therapy; and, more often today 2. Computerized tomography, as in CT scan. CT…
- Quasi- Prefix meaning seemingly. As, for example, in quasidominant, seemingly dominant.
- African tick typhus One of the tick-borne rickettsial diseases of the eastern hemisphere, similar to Rocky Mountain spotted…
- Umbilicus The vestige left behind on a newborn's belly when the umbilical cord is cut. Also called the navel or belly…
- Selfish operon A hypothesis according to which the clustering of genes and their subsequent organization into operons is…
- Virus, positive-strand RNA See: Positive-strand RNA virus
- Contig Contiguous sequence of DNA created by assembling overlapping sequenced fragments of a chromosome. A group of…