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Nat'l Inst. of Child Health and Human Dev.(NICHD)
Nt (NICHD): One of the US National Institutes of Health, NICHD is in a sense the NIH for kids in that it is concerned with child health. The mission of the NICHD is, in formal terms, to support and conduct 'research on fertility…
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- Epidermal growth factor receptor EGFR
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- Familial mental retardation protein See FMRP.
- Holmes, Oliver Wendell, Sr. (1809-1894). Celebrated American physician and professor of medicine (anatomy and physiology) at Harvard, and…
- Ciliary neuralgia A distinctive syndrome of headaches, better known today as cluster headache. There are two main clinical…
- Coding DNA A sequence of DNA that codes for protein. Coding DNA sequences are separated by long regions of DNA called…
- Low vision A visual impairment, not corrected by standard glasses, contact lenses, medicine, or surgery, that interferes…
- Pediculosis Infested with lice. See also: Head lice; Pubic lice
- CPEO Chronic progressive external ophthalmoplegia. Slowly progressive paralysis of certain eye muscles. See also…
- Science (journal) A weekly journal concerning science. Science was founded in 1880 by one of the world's most famous…