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Cardiac-limb syndrome
See: Holt-Oram syndrome
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- Chromosome, metaphase See: Y chromosome
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- Pathology The study of disease. Pathology has been defined as 'that branch of medicine which treats of the essential…
- Pneumonia, aspiration Inflammation of the lungs due to aspiration (the sucking in of food particles or fluids into the lungs).
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