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Fari Amini
Amini, Fariborz
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Show more- Hip pain Hip pain is the sensation of discomfort in or around the hip joint, where the upper end (head) of the thigh…
- Nephritis, infective tubulointerstitial Inflammation of the kidney due to infection. Symptoms include nausea, pain in the kidney area, fever, and…
- Transfer RNA (tRNA) A class of RNA that has triplet nucleotide sequence complementary to the triplet nucleotide coding sequences…
- Farsightedness Farsightedness: Medically termed hyperopia; the ability to see distant objects more clearly than close…
- Apheresis The process of removing a specific component from blood and returning the remaining components to the donor…
- APC APC has several very different meanings in medicine. See each of the following separate entries:1. APC…
- Belly button The navel or umbilicus. The one-time site of attachment of the umbilical cord. The term 'belly button' was…
- Linkage The tendency for genes and other genetic markers to be inherited together because of their location near one…
- Poison Any substance that can cause severe distress or death if ingested, breathed in, or absorbed through the skin…
- Glaucoma, symptoms of At first, there are no symptoms. Vision stays normal, and there is no pain. However, as the disease progress…
- EBV Epstein-Barr virus, best known as the cause of infectious mononucleosis ('mono'). Infection with EBV is…
- Kb Abbreviation for kilobase