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Infant formula
A substitute for breast milk for feeding infants. Pediatricians generally advise exclusively breastfeeding (that is, breastfeeding with no formula) for all full term, healthy infants for the first 6 months of life. However, many infants…
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- Granulomatosis, Wegener's An inflammatory disease of small arteries and veins (vasculitis) that classically involves vessels supplying…
- Biological therapy Biological therapy: Treatment to stimulate or restore the ability of the immune (defense) system to fight…
- GHB Known in Europe as Gamma-OH, this is gamma hydroxybutyrate, a colorless and odorless drug used illicitly for…
- Mansfield, Peter British scientist (1933-) who shared the 2003 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine with the American…
- Eosinophilia, familial See: Familial eosinophilia
- Generic drug >The chemical name of a drug. >A term referring to the chemical makeup of a drug rather than to the…
- Gene, marker A detectable genetic trait or segment of DNA that can be identified and tracked. A marker gene can serve as a…
- Osteogenesis imperfecta congenita See: Osteogenesis imperfecta type II.
- Safer sex See: Safe sex
- Control (genetic) The control of gene expression. Genetic control may be on the transcriptional or translational level…
- Peccant Unhealthy. Causing illness or disease. Peccant is one of those rarely used but apt words. The behaviors --…