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Show more- Fugue state The complete order of bases in a gene. This order determines which protein a gene will produce.
- High altitude pulmonary edema High altitude pulmonary edema: Known for short as HAPE, the accumulation in the lungs of extravascular fluid…
- Paralysis, sleep Sleep: A frightening form of paralysis that occurs when a person suddenly finds himself or herself unable to…
- Clip A device used to hold something or things together. A surgical clip may be used to prevent a blood vessel…
- Ulna The larger of the two long bones within the forearm. (The smaller one is the radius). The ulna is on the same…
- Auscultate To listen to the sounds made by the internal organs of the body for diagnostic purposes. For example, nurses…
- Potomania An intense and persistent desire to drink alcohol to excess. Synonymous with dipsomania
- Tick typhus, African See Typhus, African tick
- Physician-assisted suicide Suicide: The voluntary termination of one's own life by administration of a lethal substance with the direct…
- Radiculopathy, lumbar See Lumbar radiculopathy
- Framingham Study A landmark study begun in 1948 in which some 12,000 residents of the town of Framingham, Massachusetts were…
- Vasopressin A relatively small (peptide) molecule that is released by the pituitary gland at the base of the brain after…