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Excess selenium
Too much selenium (selenosis) which may cause reversible balding and brittle nails, give a garlic odor to the breath, and cause intestinal distress, weakness and slowed mental functioning. People who chronically consume more than the…
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- Cranial nerve VIII The eighth cranial nerve is the vestibulocochlear nerve. The vestibulocochlear nerve is responsible for the…
- Kidney Dis, Nat'l Inst of Diabetes and Digestive Igestive and (NIDDK): One of the National Institutes of Health in the U.S., the NIDDK has a multisystem name…
- Tooth The structures within the mouth that allow for biting and chewing. Teeth have different shapes, depending on…
- Verbal child abuse Child abuse: Also known as emotional child abuse, this is the third most frequently reported form of child…
- Y-linked A gene on the Y chromosome. A Y-linked gene is by necessity passed from father to son, since the Y chromosome…
- Autoimmune process A process in which the body's immune system attacks and destroys body tissue that it mistakes for foreign…
- Effective dose The dose of a drug that will achieve the desired effect
- NINR The National Institute of Nursing Research, one of the National Institutes of Health
- Cerebritis Inflammation of the brain