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Umami
The taste of substances such as glutamate and monosodium glutamate (MSG) that are found in foods like bouillon and other stocks. Umami is the fifth primary element of taste. The other four are sweet, sour, salty, and bitter. It was…
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- Paracentric chromosome inversion A basic type of chromosome rearrangement. A segment that does not include the centromere (and so is…
- Alteplase Alteplase: Generic name of a tissue plasminogen activator produced by recombinant DNA technology. The brand…
- Mutilating keratoderma See: Vohwinkel syndrome
- Cell, fat A cell containing fat. Also called an adipocyte. A fat cell, or adipocyte, is a connective tissue cell that…
- Rhabdomyolysis A condition in which skeletal muscle cells break down, releasing myoglobin (the oxygen-carrying pigment in…
- Saphenous vein, small The smaller of the two saphenous veins, the principal veins that run up the leg superficially (near the…
- Erythropoietin (EPO) A hormone produced by the kidney that promotes the formation of red blood cells in the bone marrow. EPO is a…
- Reverse transcriptase The enzyme that permits the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) and other retroviruses to use their viral RNA…
- Glaucoma treatment (medical) Although glaucoma cannot be cured, it can usually be controlled. Medical treatment can be in the form of…
- Neurooncologist A physician trained to diagnose and treat patients with brain tumors and other types of tumors of the nervous…
- Duodenitis Inflammation of the duodenum. (The duodenum is the first part of the small intestine.