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Marriage, cousin
A form of consanguinity. Everyone carries recessive alleles, genes that are generally innocuous in the heterozygous state but that in the company of another gene of the same type are capable of causing disease. We are all genetic…
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- Positive clinical trial A clinical trial that shows that the new treatment has a large beneficial effect and is superior to standard…
- Focal motor seizure A simple partial seizure with localized motor activity. There may be spasm or clonus (jerking) of one muscle…
- Cataract, supranuclear A cataract just above the center (the nucleus) of the lens. See: Cataract
- Tocus Labor, childbirth. Directly from the Greek 'tokos' meaning childbirth
- Esophagoscopy Examination of the esophagus using a thin, lighted instrument
- Hypnic jerk The common normal phenomenon of jerking awake, usually accompanied by a feeling of falling, just as one is…
- Cancer, prostatic Cancer of the gland (prostate) that produces some of the components of semen fluid. The second leading cause…
- Floating-Harbor syndrome A genetic condition characterized by the triad of short stature apparent at birth with significantly delayed…
- Level 4 biosafety >Level 1 -- This level applies to agents that do not ordinarily cause human disease. >Level 2 -- This level…
- AGXT A gene that provides instructions for making a liver enzyme called alanine-glyoxylate aminotransferase…
- Oxygen tent A tent-like device used to deliver high levels of oxygen to a patient in a bed. The tent typically covers the…