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Acute stress disorder
The anxiety and behavioral disturbances that develop within a month of exposure to extreme trauma. The symptoms of an acute stress disorder usually begin during or shortly following the trauma. Such extreme traumatic events include rape or…
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Show more- Cream A word with many meanings that, in medicine and pharmacy, refers to a water-soluble preparation applied to…
- Reactant, acute phase See: Acute-phase protein
- Lymphocytic colitis Lymphocytic colitis> A type of inflammatory disease of the large intestine (colon). The name derives from the…
- Condition, Sever Inflammation of the growth plate of the calcaneus, the bone at the back of the heel. The inflammation is at…
- Hughes Investigator See: Howard Hughes Medical Institute
- Functional gene test Test for a specific protein which indicates that the corresponding gene is not only present but active
- Peromyscus leucopus See: White-footed mouse
- Fecund Fruitful, abundantly fertile. Just as a writer is prolific, a woman may be fecund, able to reproduce…
- Stereotactic Stereotactic refers to precise positioning in three-dimensional space. For example, biopsies, surgery or…
- Deep A device put within the body that is designed to recognize certain types of abnormal heart rhythms…
- PROC Protein C
- Compound heterozygote The presence of two different mutant alleles at a particular gene locus, one on each chromosome of a pair…