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Crick, Francis
British biologist (1916-2004) who shared the 1962 Nobel prize in Medicine and Physiology with James Watson and Maurice Wilkins for 'discoveries concerning the molecular structure of nucleic acids and its significance for information…
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- Collagen injection The practice of injecting collagen into a part of the face or body to make it larger, most often performed on…
- Papules Small solid rounded bumps rising from the skin that are each usually less than 1 centimeter in diameter (less…
- Gallbladder A pear-shaped organ just below the liver that stores the bile secreted by the liver. During a fatty meal, the…
- Congenital osseus-torticollis syndrome See: Klippel-Feil sequence
- Gastric atrophy A condition in which the stomach muscles shrink and become weak. It results in a lack of digestive juices…
- Fever, Wolhynia Fever, Wolhynia: Also known as trench fever, a disease borne by body lice that was first recognized in the…
- Noonan syndrome (NS) Noonan syndrome (NS): A multifaceted genetic disorder characterized by a series of birth defects (congenital…
- Drug, prescription A drug requiring a prescription, as opposed to an over-the-counter drug, which can be purchased without one…
- Genome, Drosophila See: Drosophila genome