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Ciliary body melanoma
See: Intraocular melanoma
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Show more- Somatic cell Any cell in the body other than an egg or sperm
- Microcephalin See: Microcephalin 1
- HMPV Human metapneumovirus
- Schonlein-Henoch purpura A form of blood vessel inflammation (vasculitis) that typically affects small arterial vessels (capillaries)…
- Triptans (Triptan) Fear of the number 13. Written reference to this fear dates to the late 1800s. The term triskaidekaphobia…
- Gamma ray High-energy electromagnetic radiation emitted by certain radionuclides when their nuclei transition from a…
- Unwell Not well or in good health, ailing, sick, indisposed. For example, 'I am well-nigh choked with the sulfurous…
- Chromosome, Y See: Y chromosome
- Stiff lung See: ARDS
- Recurrent Back again. A recurrent fever is a fever that has returned after an intermission: a recrudescent fever
- Mutagenesis The development and production of mutations in the genome
- BCNS Basal cell nevus syndrome, also known as the Gorlin syndrome