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Infertility
Infertility: The diminished ability or the inability to conceive and have offspring. Infertility is also defined in specific terms as the failure to conceive after a year of regular intercourse without contraception. Infertility can be due…
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Show more- Mesial 1. Toward the middle. As, for example, a mesial temporal lobe structure.2. In dentistry, toward the middle of…
- Virus, Marburg See: Negative-strand RNA virus.
- Heterotrisomy Trisomy of different chromosomes. The occurrence of two children in the same family, one with trisomy 18 and…
- Coronary artery disease >Chest pain (angina pectoris) from inadequate blood flow to the heart; >Heart attack (acute myocardial…
- NIDDK (Nat'l Institute of Diabetes and Kidney) And Kidney Diseases): One of the National Institutes of Health in the U.S., the NIDDK has a multisystem name…
- Sexual masochism Sexual masochism is a disorder in which individuals use sexual fantasies, urges or behaviors involving the…
- Gel electrophoresis The process in which molecules (such as proteins, DNA, or RNA fragments) can be separated according to size…
- Eastern equine encephalitis Abbreviated EEE. A mosquito-born viral disease. The EEE virus normally is found in freshwater swamp birds and…
- Cranial arteritis A serious disease characterized by inflammation of the walls of the blood vessels (vasculitis). The vessels…
- Eczema, allergic contact Also called allergic contact dermatitis, this is a red, itchy, weepy reaction where the skin has come into…
- Hyperplasia A condition in which there is an increase in the number of normal cells in a tissue or organ
- Genome, chicken See: Chicken genome