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Benzene
A sweet smelling, highly toxic hydrocarbon. Long-term exposure to benzene is known to cause anemia and leukemia. The anemia associated with benzene exposure is termed aplastic anemia. The types of leukemia associated with benzene exposure…
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Show more- Oxygenating Pertaining to the addition of oxygen, as to the human body. Oxygenating may refer to the process of treating…
- Caecal Pertaining to the caecum (also spelled cecum), the first portion of the large bowel, situated in the lower…
- Lens, intraocular See: Intraocular lens
- Olfactory nerve A nerve that registers smells by carrying the impulses for the sense of smell from the nose to the brain…
- Disease, polycystic ovary See: Polycystic ovarian syndrome
- Physiologic jaundice of the newborn Although there can be a diversity of physiologic stress tests, this refers here to a physiologic cardiac…
- Autochthonous (Pronounced au-toch-tho-nous)1. Native. Poison ivy is an autochthonous plant. 2. Found in the place where it…
- Histiocytosis, Letterer Siwe A severe disease in which histiocytes start to multiply and attack the tissues or organs of the patient…
- Blood pressure The blood pressure is the pressure of the blood within the arteries. It is produced primarily by the…
- Electroencephalogram A study of electrical current within the brain. Electrodes are attached to the scalp. Wires attach these…
- Allopath Or allopathist. A term sometimes applied to a physician who practices conventional medicine (allopathy)
- Drosophila The fruit fly. One species, Drosophila melanogaster, is a favorite model organism in genetics and…