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Animal-to-human transplant
Transplant: See Xenotransplantation
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Show more- Acid, nucleic One of the molecules in the chromosomes of living cells and viruses that plays a central role in the storage…
- Y-linkage The presence of a gene on the Y chromosome. Y-linkage is analogous to X-linkage (the presence of a gene on…
- Spastic pseudoparalysis Better known as Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD). A dementing disease of the brain. CJD is believed to be due…
- Neural foramen See: Intervertebral foramen
- Homeotherm A homeotherm is a warm-blooded animal (such as homo sapiens). Another term for us warm-blooded creatures is…
- Braille system A system of raised-dot writing devised by Louis Braille (1809-1852) for the blind in which each letter is…
- Attenuated virus To attenuate is to weaken or to make (or become) thin. The word derives from a combination of the Latin…
- Anovular Not accompanied by ovulation, the release of an ovum (egg) from the ovary. Synonymous with anovulatory
- Microbicide An agent that kills microbes, minute forms of life (e.g. bacteria, fungi, and protozoal parasites), some…
- Nail infection, fungal The most common fungus infection of the nails is onychomycosis. Onychomycosis makes the nails look white and…
- Breast cancer, familial A number of factors have been identified that increase the risk of breast cancer. One of the strongest of…
- Tunica albuginea The whitish membrane within the penis that surrounds the spongy chambers (corpora cavernosa) in the penis and…