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Quasidominant
Pattern of inheritance that seems due to a dominant trait but is in fact due to the mating of a person who has a recessive disorder (with two copies of a gene causing the disease) with someone who is an asymptomatic carrier (with one copy…
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Show more- Film Slang shortening of X-ray film, an X-ray, a radiograph
- Reaction, chemical A process in which one substance is transformed into another. Thousands of different types of chemical…
- T1-T12 (thoracic vertebrae) The symbols T1 through T12 represent the 12 thoracic vertebrae. The thoracic vertebrae are situated between…
- H (drug caution code) Abbreviation standing for habitforming on a medication that indicates caution because the medication may…
- AML1 Acute myeloid leukemia 1 gene. See: Runx-1
- Snuff Tobacco in the form of a powder that is inhaled into the nose, not smoked. Snuff and chewing tobacco are the…
- Rorschach test A psychological test involving inkblots. The inkblots are used to determine what a person perceives (reads…
- Chromaesthesia See: Chromesthesia
- Dieldrix Trade name of the insecticide dieldrin. See: Aldrin and dieldrin
- Hiatus hernia Tal hernia): An anatomical abnormality in which part of the stomach protrudes up through the diaphragm into…
- Central retinal vein The blood vessel that carries blood away from the retina of the eye. The counterpart to the central retinal…
- Homo sapiens The primate species of mammal to which modern humans belong. Homo sapiens is Latin for knowing man or wise man