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Vision therapy
The use of special eye exercises to address eye defects, such as strabismus. Some vision therapists also claim that eye exercises can help people with neurological or learning disabilities. This approach is not proven for the latter use…
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- VBAC Vaginal Birth After Cesarian section. Although the abbreviation VBAC (pronounced VEE-back) does not appear in…
- Sickle hemoglobin Hemoglobin S, the most common type of abnormal hemoglobin and the basis of both sickle cell trait and sickle…
- Poliomyelitis An acute and sometimes devastating viral disease. Man is the only natural host for poliovirus. The virus…
- Seckel syndrome The second cranial nerve is the optic nerve, the nerve that connects the eye to the brain and carries the…
- Marriage, cousin A form of consanguinity. Everyone carries recessive alleles, genes that are generally innocuous in the…
- Lipoid nephrosis The earliest stage of nephrosis (the nephrotic syndrome of childhood). See: Minimal change disease. See also…
- Camphechlor See: Toxaphene
- Nonpenetrant trait A genetic trait (characteristic) that is present in the genome but does not manifest itself in the…
- MCV Abbreviation for mean cell volume, the average volume of a red blood cell. This is a calculated value derived…
- Arteriovenous malformation Dth='100%' border=0> ODYvAlign=top bgColor=#cccccc colSpan=2> vAlign=top width='100%' bgColor=#ffffff>Our…
- Hybridization, fluorescent in situ An important molecular cytogenetic method for identifying chromosomes and parts of chromosomes, deciphering…