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- Syndrome, Aase-Smith II See: Aase-Smith syndrome II
- Random number table A table of numbers generated in an unpredictable, haphazard sequence. Tables of random numbers are used to…
- Syndrome, Patau Trisomy 13 syndrome or three chromosome number 13s instead of the normal two. Children with this condition…
- Diseases, Infectious, Nat'l Inst of Allergy & Allergy and (NIAID): This is one of the National Institutes of Health in the U.S. In formal terms, the…
- Rosacea Rosacea: A chronic skin disease that affects the middle third of the face with persistent redness over the…
- Incus One of the three tiny bones in the middle ear. Sound impulses coming from the eardrum are conveyed from the…
- Striopallidodentate calcinosis Striopallidodentate (SPD) calcinosis, a condition first described in 1930 by T. Fahr and therefore called…
- Syndrome, Bernard-Soulier Nt platelet syndrome): This is a primary problem of platelets in which the platelets lack the ability to…
- Tendonopathy, patellar See: Patellar tendonitis
- Dilating The widening and opening of the cervix caused by uterine contractions
- UAA A triplet consisting of uracil, adenine, adenine, in that order, that acts as a stop codon in messenger RNA…