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Peccant
Unhealthy. Causing illness or disease. Peccant is one of those rarely used but apt words. The behaviors -- overeating, underexercising, an unhealthy diet -- that underlie so much disease today are peccant behaviors. '...the subtile parts…
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Show more- EOG Electro-oculography. A type of electrophysiologic retinal testing
- Single upper palm crease See: Simian crease
- Diesel exhaust particle A respirable particle produced during the compression ignition of diesel fuel. Diesel particles are composed…
- Deafness, acquired Deafness, acquired: The loss of hearing that occurs or develops some time during a person's life but was not…
- Masochism Pleasure from one's own pain. Masochism is considered a sexual disorder, or paraphilia. Named after the…
- Rice rat A rodent capable of carrying the types of hantavirus that cause HPS (hantavirus pulmonary syndrome) in the…
- Forensics, DNA DNA:See: DNA forensics
- Tuberculosis, extrapulmonary Tuberculosis that occurs outside the lungs as, for example, in the lymph nodes or kidneys
- Hormone, TSH Stands for Thyroid Stimulating Hormone. Also known as thyrotropin
- Heebie-jeebies Extreme nervousness. A term coined by the America cartoonist Billy DeBeck (1890-1942) in his comic strip…
- Antidote An agent that counteracts a poison and neutralizes its effects. A chemical antidote is a substance that…
- Chromatids The daughter strands of a duplicated chromosome joined together by a centromere.