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Beard
The hair that normally grows on the male face after puberty. Testosterone, the most potent of the naturally occurring androgens, causes the development of secondary sex features such as the beard that are characteristic of the adult male…
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- DOC 1. Acronym for 'daily on call.'2. Deoxycorticosterone
- Lipid Another word for 'fat.' (Please see the various meanings of Fat.) A lipid is more formally defined as a…
- Xenograft A surgical graft of tissue from one species to an unlike species (or genus or family). A graft from a baboon…
- Hydatidiform mole A tumor that forms in the uterus as a mass of cysts resembling a bunch of grapes. Moles occur during the…
- Adenine (A) One member of the A-T (adenine-thymine) base pair in DNA. The other base pair in DNA is G-C…
- Atopic Prone to allergies or characterized by allergy
- Melanoma, lentigo maligna One of the four clinical types of malignant melanoma and the slowest growing one. It typically begins as a…
- Diabetes skin condition See: Diabetic skin disease
- Fever, dengue An acute mosquito-borne viral illness of sudden onset that usually follows a benign course with headache…
- Fornix vaginae See: Vaginal fornix
- Transcription Making an RNA copy from a sequence of DNA (a gene). Transcription is the first step in gene expression