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- Cone snail A fishing-eating snail (Conidae) that inhabits tropical coral reefs and produces toxins that immobilize their…
- Mus musculus genome All of the genetic information contained in Mus musculus, the laboratory mouse. The genomes of particular…
- Injury, mental child Also known as emotional child abuse, this is the third most frequently reported form of child abuse (after…
- FTT Failure to thrive. Refers to a child whose physical growth is significantly less than that of peers. There is…
- IL-10 Interleukin-10
- Bayes' theorem See: Bayes theorem
- Altitude, acclimatization to >The depth of respiration increases; >The pressure in the pulmonary arteries increases, forcing blood into…
- L- Abbreviation for levorotatory, applied to a chemical compound, as in l-dopa. Levorotary is opposed to…
- Myocardium The heart muscle.
- Foreign body airway obstruction Partial or complete blockage of the breathing tubes to the lungs due to a foreign body (e.g., food, a bead…
- LAVH Laparoscopic assisted vaginal hysterectomy, a procedure using laparoscopic techniques to remove the uterus…