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ADA deficiency
Lack of normal adenosine deaminase (ADA) activity, a genetic (inherited) condition causing one form of severe combined immunodeficiency ((SCID) disease. It is said to be 'combined' in that there is dysfunction of both B and T lymphocytes…
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Show more- Endometrioma Part of the condition known as endometriosis. Endometrioma is a type of cyst formed when endometrial tissue…
- Arylalkylamine N-acetyltransferase See:AANAT
- Ewing sarcoma Sarcoma: A type of bone tumor that occurs in children and adolescents, most often in the large bones of the…
- American Sign Language Abbreviated ASL. A complete, complex language that employs signs made with the hands and other movements…
- Melanoma, intraocular See: Intraocular melanoma
- Anton Chekhov See: Chekhov, Anton
- Vaccine, Sabin polio See: Polio vaccine, oral
- Rickettsioses The infectious diseases caused by the rickettsiae. See Rickettsial diseases
- Testicular cancer Testicular cancer: Cancer of the male sex organ, the testicle, that normally produces the hormone…
- Spinal cord disease in diabetes Involvement of the spinal cord in people with diabetes. Most of the neurologic attention in diabetes mellitus…
- Aerotitis media See Aerotitis
- Spock, Benjamin (1903-1998) American pediatrician whose book on 'Baby and Child Care' which first appeared in 1946 was one of…