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Rickets
A disease of infants and children that disturbs normal bone formation (ossification). Rickets is a failure to mineralize bone. This softens bone (producing osteomalacia) and permits marked bending and distortion of bones. Up through the…
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Show more- Biomarker A biochemical feature or facet that can be used to measure the progress of disease or the effects of treatment
- Cord, vocal See: Vocal cord
- Random number table A table of numbers generated in an unpredictable, haphazard sequence. Tables of random numbers are used to…
- Evolution, biologic Biologic evolution was contrasted with cultural (social) evolution in 1968 by A.G. Motulsky who pointed out…
- Heterosexuality Sexuality directed toward someone of the opposite sex
- Narcotic 1. A drug that causes insensibility or stupor. A narcotic induces narcosis, from the Greek 'narke' for…
- Aneurysm, racemose An aneurysm is a localized widening (dilatation) of an artery, vein, or the heart. At the area of an…
- Cancer, brain Cancer of the central information processing center of the body. Tumors in the brain can be malignant or…
- Feeding tube See: Enteral nutrition
- Hip fracture Broken bone in the hip, a key health problem among the elderly, usually due to a fall or other kind of trauma…
- Monte Carlo simulation A statistical method used in biomedical research, involving computer simulation in which data are randomly…
- Treatment, palliative To palliate a disease is to treat it partially and insofar as possible, but not cure it completely…