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See: Marx, Gertie F.
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- American medical school, first See: First American medical school
- Resistance, pulmonary The opposition of the respiratory tree to air flow
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- A1C A test that measures how much glucose has been sticking during the past 3-4 months to hemoglobin, the…
- Cryptosporidium parvum The parasite that causes the disease, cryptosporidiosis. See: Cryptosporidiosis
- Cancer, leukemia Leukemia is a cancer of the white blood cells. Leukemias are grouped by how quickly the disease develops…
- Thr Threonine. See also: Amino acid symbols