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Acrodynia
Pain in the extremities (the hands and feet)
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- Adhesive capsulitis Constant severe limitation of the range of motion of the shoulder due to scarring around the shoulder joint…
- Fistula, anal See: Anal fistula
- Edwards syndrome Trisomy 18 syndrome. Children with the syndrome have an extra chromosome 18 with a characteristic pattern of…
- Bursal Pertaining to a bursa
- DRVs (Daily Reference Values) A deficiency of tears. The main symptom is usually a scratchy or sandy feeling as if something is in the eye…
- Psycho-oncology The psychological, social, behavioral, and ethical aspects of cancer. Psycho-oncology addresses the two major…
- Positional cloning Cloning a gene based simply on knowing its position in the genome without any idea of the function of that…
- Reverse transcriptase-polymerase chain reaction Abbreviated RT-PCR. See: RT-PCR
- James Watson See: Watson, James
- Epigenetics 1. The study of heritable changes in gene function that occur without a change in the sequence of the DNA…
- Third ventricle >Lateral ventricles: The lateral ventricles are in the cerebral hemispheres, one in each hemisphere. Each…