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National Cholesterol Education Program
NCEP. A program designed to reduce illness and death from coronary heart disease (CHD) in the US by reducing the percentage of Americans with high blood cholesterol. Through educational efforts directed at health professionals and the…
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Show more- Genes, breast cancer susceptibility Breast cancer susceptibility: Inherited factors that predispose to breast cancer. Put otherwise, these genes…
- Hemorrhagic cyst This type of functional cyst occurs when bleeding occurs within a cyst. Symptoms such as abdominal pain on…
- Enoxaparin Enoxaparin: A low-molecular-weight version of heparin which acts like heparin as an anticoagulant…
- Cytology The medical and scientific study of cells. Cytology refers to a branch of pathology, the medical specialty…
- Microtubule motor protein A protein that plays a role in spindle assembly and function or in chromosome movement during meiosis or…
- Mutant An individual with a mutant (changed) gene.
- Prusiner See: Prusiner, Stanley B.
- Sinus arrhythmia The normal increase in heart rate that occurs during inspiration (when you breathe in). This is a natural…
- Syndrome, Gower (situational syncope) The temporary loss of consciousness in particular kinds of situations. (Syncope is temporary loss of…
- Jimmy Fund A children's cancer fund that has been responsible for highly significant work, especially on chemotherapy…
- Dihydroxyacetone Also known as DHA, the active ingredient in most sunless tanning lotions. See: DHA
- Gyri The plural of gyrus