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Ondine's curse
Failure from birth of central nervous system control over breathing while asleep. There are usually no breathing problems while awake. The involuntary (autonomic) control of respiration is impaired, but the voluntary control of ventilation…
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- Di Bella cancer therapy An alternative medicine cancer treatment program developed by Dr. Luigi Di Bella based on a drug cocktail…
- Hypothyroidism Deficiency ofroid hormone which is normally made by the thyroid gland which is located in the front of the…
- Blot, Northern A technique in molecular biology, used mainly to separate and identify pieces of RNA. Called a Northern blot…
- Angiitis, allergic granulomatous See: Churg-Strauss syndrome
- Orthopedics The branch of surgery broadly concerned with the skeletal system (bones). Orthopedics is how this field of…
- Designer steroid A synthetic steroid derived by simple chemical modification from another steroid, usually an anabolic…
- NLM (National Library of Medicine) The world's largest medical library, the U.S. National Library of Medicine (NLM) is part of the National…
- Thyroid hormone receptor A molecule that receives a thyroid hormone and permits it to dock on the nuclear membrane of a cell. The…
- Hiatal hernia Hiatal hernia: An anatomical abnormality in which part of the stomach protrudes up through the diaphragm into…
- Os calcis See: Calcaneus
- Disease, Plummer's Toxic multinodular goiter, a condition in which the thyroid gland contains multiple lumps (nodules) that are…