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Show more- Motulsky dye test A test for glucose 6-phosphate dehydrogenase deficiency (G6PD), a cause of anemia and the most common enzyme…
- Base pair Two DNA bases complementary to one another (A and T or G and C) that join the complementary strands of DNA to…
- Palliate To treat partially and incompletely. To palliate a diseases is to treat it partially but not cure it…
- Levo-alpha acetyl methadol Abbreviated LAAM. An alternative to methadone. See: LAAM
- Herniorrhaphy The surgical repair of a hernia. Herniorrhaphy may be done under local or general anesthesia using a…
- Diabetes, non-insulin-dependent Type 2 diabetes. See also Diabetes, type 2.
- EPT Estrogen/progestin therapy
- Dr. Andrew Weil Dr. Andrew Weil is a physician and proponent of alternative medicine. Dr. Weil is the Director and founder of…
- Ramsay Hunt, James Pre-eminent 20th-century American neurologist (1872-1937) who described a number of important diseases…
- Unwell Not well or in good health, ailing, sick, indisposed. For example, 'I am well-nigh choked with the sulfurous…
- Bartholin's glands A pair of glands between the vulva and the vagina that produce lubrication in response to stimulation. With a…
- GALT deficiency Lack of the enzyme called GALT (galactose-1-phosphate uridyl transferase) which causes the genetic metabolic…