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Tumor registry
Recorded information about the status of patients with tumors. Although a registry was originally the place (like Registry House in Edinburgh) where information was collected (in registers), the word 'registry' has also come to mean the…
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Show more- Clinical aspirin resistance The inability of aspirin to protect a person from cardiovascular events such as heart attacks and strokes
- CDNA Complementary DNA. cDNA is single-stranded DNA made in the laboratory from a messenger RNA template under the…
- MG (myasthenia gravis) Myasthenia gravis (MG): An autoimmune neuromuscular disorder characterized by fatigue and exhaustion of…
- Tetracycline Tetracycline: A family of broad-spectrum antibiotics effective against a remarkably wide variety of…
- Synovial membrane A layer of connective tissue that lines the cavities of joints, tendon sheaths, and bursae and makes synovial…
- Dorothy Hodgkin See: Hodgkin, Dorothy
- Atriodigital dysplasia See: Holt-Oram syndrome
- Cerebral hemispheres The two halves of the cerebrum, the largest part of the brain.
- Vaccination, HIB This immunization is designed to prevent diseases caused by Haemophilus influenzae type B (HIB), a bacteria…
- Pill, the Commonly called 'the pill,' combined oral contraceptives are the most commonly used form of reversible birth…
- Mab Monoclonal antibody. See: MAB
- Anal papilla A skin tag that projects up from the junction between the skin and the inside lining of the anus. Anal…