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Pathogenesis
The development of a disease. The origin of a disease and the chain of events leading to that disease
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- Hereditary progressive arthro-ophthalmopathy See: Stickler syndrome
- Disease, His-Werner Named for the Swiss physician Wilhelm His, Jr. (who also described the bundle of His in the heart) and the…
- Meiotic drive Preferential selection during meiosis (germ cell production). In meiotic drive there is preferential…
- Syndrome, nervous colon A common gastrointestinal disorder involving an abnormal condition of gut contractions (motility)…
- Output, cardiac The amount of blood pumped by the heart per minute. The amount of blood put out by the left ventricle of the…
- OCPD Obsessive-compulsive personality disorder
- Depression, dysthymia A type of depression involving long-term, chronic symptoms that are not disabling, but keep a person from…
- E2F transcription factor 3 See: E2F3
- Bell, Sir Charles See: Bell, Charles
- Transverse fracture A fracture in which the break is across the bone, at a right angle to the long axis of the bone. NTER>
- Thyroid insufficiency See: Hypothyroidism