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Quickening
The moment during pregnancy when the baby is first felt to move
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- Family 1. A group of individuals related by blood or marriage or by a feeling of closeness. 2. A biological…
- Focused H and P In common doctor language, H and P stand for the history (H) and physical (P), namely the medical history and…
- Serial amnioreduction The repeated removal of large volumes of amniotic fluid by amniocentesis. The rationale for serial…
- Hendra virus A virus, formerly called equine morbillivirus, that can cause illness in horses and humans. First identified…
- Actinomycetes A group of gram-positive bacteria (order Actinomycetales) that produce various bioactive agents including…
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- Son 1. Principally, a male offspring. 2. Also a male adopted child. 3. A term of address for a male. From the Old…
- Reading frame One of the three possible ways to read a nucleotide sequence in DNA or RNA as a series of nonoverlapping…