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Therapy, behavior
A treatment program that involves substituting desirable behavior responses for undesirable ones
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- LDH Lactate dehydrogenase
- Syndrome, carpal tunnel See Carpal tunnel syndrome.
- HeLa cell One of the cells grown from the cervical cancer of a young African-American woman, Henrietta Lacks. HeLa…
- Aphakia Absence or loss of the eye's natural crystalline lens, as after cataract removal. From a-, without + phacos…
- Zoonotic Pertaining to a zoonosis: a disease that can be transmitted from animals to people or, more specifically, a…
- WHS Wolf-Hirschhorn syndrome
- B. quintana Also called Rochalimaea quintana), Bartonella quintana is an unusual rickettsial organism that can multiply…
- Do not resuscitate order A request not to have cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) done if the heart stops or breathing ceases. One…
- Ectodermal Pertaining to the ectoderm or to tissues derived from the ectoderm, one of the three primary germ cell layers…
- Biallelic Pertaining to both alleles (both alternative forms of a gene). For example, biallelic mutations in the gene…