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Human immunodeficiency virus
Human immunodeficiency virus: HIV, the cause of AIDS. HIV has also been called the human lymphotropic virus type III, the lymphadenopathy-associated virus and the lymphadenopathy virus. No matter what name is applied, it is a retrovirus…
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Show more- Intensivist A physician who specializes in the care of critically ill patients, usually in an intensive care unit (ICU)
- ID See: Yttrium Y 90 ibritumomab tiuxetan.
- Cornelia de Lange syndrome See: de Lange syndrome
- Protein, proteolipid See: Proteolipid protein
- Ban zhi lian See: Scutellaria barbata
- Bernard, Christiaan South African surgeon (1922-2001) who pioneered cardiac transplantation. Dr. Bernard did the world's first…
- Taste bud One of the tiny, barrel-shaped endings of the gustatory nerve located around the base of the papillae (small…
- Idiocy, amaurotic familial An outdated term for Tay-Sachs disease (TSD) which is concisely defined by OMIM (Online Mendelian Inheritance…
- Anemia, sickle cell A genetic blood disease due to the presence of an abnormal form of hemoglobin, namely hemoglobin S…
- Tobacco smoke, environmental Abbreviated ETS. See: ETS.
- Binocular vision The ability to maintain visual focus on an object with both eyes, creating a single visual image. Lack of…
- Bisexual An individual who engages in both heterosexual and homosexual sexual relations. Bisexual can also refer to…