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Pestilence
The pestilence referred to the bubonic plague and it now refers to any epidemic disease that is highly contagious, infectious, virulent and devastating. The plague was, a highly contagious, infectious, virulent, devastating disease due to…
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Show more- Familial Parkinson disease type 4 A familial form of Parkinson disease inherited in an autosomal dominant manner due to a gene on chromosome…
- Therapy, electroshock See Electroconvulsive therapy
- Radiosensitive Sensitive to X-rays and other forms of radiant energy. For example, a tumor may be radiosensitive, and…
- Diarrhea, traveler's Diarrhea illness associated with travel to a foreign country. Among the causes of traveler's diarrhea are…
- Rate, infant mortality The number of children dying under a year of age divided by the number of live births that year. The infant…
- Bone, ankle The ankle bone is termed the talus. It is the bone of the foot that joins the tibia and fibula to form the…
- Hangman injury (Hangman's fracture) A broken neck involving a fracture of an upper cervical vertebra similar to the injury suffered in death by…
- Deletion Loss of a segment of DNA from a chromosome (and hence from the genome). The first human chromosome deletion…
- ADU Accessory dwelling unit
- USPHS (United States Public Health Service) The agency responsible for the public health of the American people. The Public Health Service (PHS)…
- Base in DNA A unit of the DNA. There are 4 bases: adenine (A), guanine (G), thymine (T), and cytosine (C). The sequence…
- Succumb To lose the will to oppose something or to give up and accept something that you first opposed. In the…