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Familial
A condition that is tends to occur more often in family members than expected by chance alone. A familial disease may be genetic (such as cystic fibrosis) or environmental (such as tuberculosis)
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- Bisexual An individual who engages in both heterosexual and homosexual sexual relations. Bisexual can also refer to…
- Apophenia In psychology, the perception of connections and meaningfulness in unrelated things. Apophenia can be a…
- Histoplasmosis A disease caused by the fungus Histoplasma capsulatum. Most people with histoplasmosis have no symptoms…
- Bayesian Pertaining to Thomas Bayes (1702-1761) and to probability methods based on Bayes theorem. As in Bayesian…
- Knockout mouse A mouse missing a single gene (that has been knocked out). Knockout mice are used in biomedical research
- Forensic medicine The branch of medicine that deals with the application of medical knowledge to legal problems and legal…
- Meningomyelocele Protrusion of the membranes that cover the spine but some of the spinal cord itself through a defect in the…
- ALS8 See: Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis 8
- Multiple organ failure A term synonymous with multiple system failure and equally vague and nonspecific. See: Multiple system failure
- Mononeuritis Inflammation of a single nerve. There are many causes of mononeuritis including diabetes mellitus, carpal…