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Royal Society, the
Nerable scientific society in England which in 1665 published one of the first 2 scientific journals in the world: the 'Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society.' The other was the 'Journal des Scavants' (Scholars) which appeared in…
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Show more- Heart rehab See: Cardiac rehabilitation
- Change, single base A change in which a single base in the DNA differs from the usual base at that position. These single base…
- Locomotive system Limited to a local region. See also: Locoregional anesthesia; Locoregional metastasis.
- Childbirth fever Fever due to an infection usually of the placental site within the uterus. The fever is also called childbed…
- Journal of the National Cancer Institute Cancer Institute: A medical journal sponsored by the National Cancer Institute (NCI), one of the National…
- Quickening The moment during pregnancy when the baby is first felt to move
- Helminthology, medical See: Medical helminthology
- Adenomatous polyposis coli, autosomal recessive See: MYH
- Congenital brevicollis See: Klippel-Feil sequence
- Monocular diplopia See: Diplopia, monocular
- Specific developmental disorder A disorder that selectively affects one area of development, sparing essentially all other areas of…
- Lipids Another word for 'fats.' (Please see the various meanings of Fat.) Lipids can be more formally defined as…