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C. elegans genome
All of the genetic information contained in the roundworm Caenorhabditis elegans (C. elegans). The genomes of particular nonhuman organisms such as C. elegans have been studied for a number of reasons including the need to improve…
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Show more- Smell, inability to No sense of smell is called anosmia. It can be due to loss of the sense of smell or failure for it to…
- Medical directives, advance Advance directives preserve the person's right to accept or reject a course of medical treatment even after…
- Prostate specific antigen Prostate specific antigen: Widely known as PSA. See: PSA.
- Legal blindness The criteria used to determine eligibility for government disability benefits and which do not necessarily…
- Foot fungus Athlete's foot causes foot itching, burning, pain, and scaling. It is caused by a fungus and is treated with…
- Sudoriferous gland The sudoriferous (sweat) glands are small tubular structures situated within and under the skin (in the…
- Meningocele (MM) Protrusion of the membranes that cover the spine and part of the spinal cord through a bone defect in the…
- Cervix, incompetent A cervix that is abnormally liable to dilate and so is not competent to hold the fetus and keep it from being…
- Therapy, interpersonal See: Interpersonal therapy
- Crohn colitis Crohn disease involving only the large intestine (colon). Crohn disease is a chronic inflammatory disorder…
- Fever, five-day Fever, five-day: Also called trench fever, this is a disease borne by body lice that was first recognized in…
- Minimal residual disease Evidence for the presence of residual malignant cells, even when so few cancer cells are present that they…