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Syndrome, Coffin-Lowry
An X-linked form of mental retardation in which the affected males have short stature and characteristic face, finger and skeletal abnormalities. Facial features include prominent forehead, widespread eyes, downslanting eyeslits, prominent…
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Show more- Osteomalacia Softening of bone, particularly in the sense of bone weakened by demineralization (the loss of mineral) and…
- Monogenic Pertaining to one gene. As opposed to polygenic
- Colorectal adenoma family history See: Colon cancer family history
- Carbonmonoxyhemoglobin See: Carboxyhemoglobin
- X-linked juvenile retinoschisis See: Juvenile retinoschisis
- Analytic sensitivity The lowest level of a substance that can be detected by an analytic method
- Pediatric end stage liver disease See: PELD
- Bone cyst, simple A solitary fluid-filled cyst (cavity) in a bone, usually in the shaft of a long bone, especially the humerus…
- Macules Small circumscribed changes in the color of skin that are neither raised (elevated) nor depressed. Macules…
- Albinism and hemorrhagic diathesis Pigmented reticuloendothelial cells: See: Hermansky-Pudlak syndrome
- Flavivirus encephalitis Encephalitis (inflammation of the brain) due to a flavivirus, a virus transmitted by a mosquito or tick…
- Plasmid A circle of DNA that is self-replicating (autonomously replicating) and distinct from the normal genome of…