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Maternal phenylketonuria
A mother with the genetic disease phenylketonuria (PKU) whose high blood levels of phenylalanine (phe) are dangerous to a developing fetus. High phe is a teratogen. It can damage a baby before birth. Women with PKU who are off the special…
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- Disease nomenclature A system of classifying and naming diseases. The contemporary categories and codes for diseases are outlined…
- Turf toe An injury to the big toe due to forced hyperextension (upward bending back) of the toe. The damage is to the…
- Microarray A tool used to sift through and analyze the information contained within a genome. A microarray consists of…
- Unit, international (IU) An international unit (IU) is an internationally accepted amount of a substance. This type of measure is used…
- Macrovascular Pertaining to the macrovasculature, the portion of the vasculature of the body comprising the larger vessels…
- UAA A triplet consisting of uracil, adenine, adenine, in that order, that acts as a stop codon in messenger RNA…
- Injury, hangman (Hangman's fracture) Injury to one of the two crescent-shaped cartilage pads between the two joints formed by the femur (the thigh…
- Reiter syndrome A chronic form of inflammatory arthritis wherein the following three conditions are combined: (1) arthritis…
- Latent Hidden, dormant, inactive. The virus that causes chickenpox remains latent after the initial attack of…