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Osteoblast
A cell that makes bone. It does so by producing a matrix that then becomes mineralized. Bone mass is maintained by a balance between the activity of osteoblasts that form bone and other cells called osteoclasts that break it down. See…
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- Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry An agency of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services under the Public Health Service that works with…
- Medical geography An important 'new' area of health research that is a hybrid between geography and medicine dealing with the…
- Hip replacement, total Hip replacement, total: Surgery in which the diseased ball and socket of the hip joint are completely removed…
- Semen The fluid that is released through the penis during orgasm. Semen is made up of fluid and of sperm. The fluid…
- Syndrome, Barlow Barlow syndrome is mitral valve prolapse (also known as 'click murmur syndrome'), the most common heart valve…
- Fat, brown See: Brown fat
- DKK1 A gene that inhibits the activity of osteoblasts, the cells that build bone. DKK1 acts by inhibiting Wnt…
- PAP 1. Prostatic acid phosphatase. 2. Pulmonary artery pressure
- Insomnia, fatal familial See Fatal familial insomnia
- Am Symbol for americium
- Syndrome, mucocutaneous lymph node A syndrome of unknown origin, mainly affecting young children. It causes fever, reddening of the eyes…