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Nature (journal)
The name of a venerable British scientific journal that has over the past century or so published much of importance to medicine and the biomedical sciences. There are now, in fact, eight publications in the Nature family of journals: >…
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Show more- Radiate To spread out from a central area. For example, sciatic pain may radiate outward from the lower back
- Vitreous type 2 Stickler syndrome Stickler syndrome, type II. See: Stickler syndrome
- Colostomy An alternative exit from the colon created to divert waste through a hole in the colon and through the wall…
- Caveola An tiny pit, grotto, depression, incupping in the surface of a cell. The name 'caveola' means little cave…
- Fusion inhibitor A class of antiretroviral drugs that work on the outside of the host CD4 cell to prevent HIV from fusing with…
- Campylobacter jejuni A bacterium that typically infects the bowels. Now the leading cause of bacterial food poisoning…
- Masticate To chew, grind, or pulverize food (or something else) until it turns to pulp. From the Latin masticare, from…
- Ricin Ricin: A potent protein toxin made from the waste left over from processing castor beans. The castor plant…
- Center for Devices & Radiological Health Abbreviated CDRH. Part of the FDA (the US Food & Drug Administration)
- Vocal cord paralysis Vocal cord paralysis:bility of one or both vocal folds (vocal cords) to move. The paralysis is usually due to…
- Sciatic nerve The largest nerve in the body, the sciatic nerve begins from nerve roots in the lumbar part of the spinal…
- Carcinogen A substance or agent that causes cancer. Related terms include the adjective 'carcinogenic' and the nouns…