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Pharmacogenomics
The study of how variations in the human genome affect the response to medications. The older term 'pharmacogenetics' was created from the words 'pharmacology' and 'genetics' to indicate the intersection of pharmaceuticals and genetics…
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Show more- Lactation The process of milk production. Human milk is secreted by the mammary glands, which are located within the…
- Sensory Relating to sensation, to the perception of a stimulus and the voyage made by incoming (afferent) nerve…
- Imprinting, genomic The phenomenon of parent-of-origin gene expression. The expression of a gene depends upon the parent who…
- Hounsfield, Godfrey (1919-2004) British electrical engineer whose contributions to the creation of the computerized axial…
- Bio- Prefix indicating living plants or creatures, as in biology, the study of living organisms
- Y (in chemistry) The symbol for the element yttrium, an ultrarare metal named after Ytterby in southern Sweden. Yttrium has…
- Prontosil The first sulfa drug to be discovered. Largely of historic interest today. The discovery was made by the…
- Malrotated ear An ear that is slanted more than usual. Technically, an ear is slanted when the angle of the slope of the…
- Test, triglyceride Triglycerides are the major form of fat. Triglycerides come from the food we eat and are produced by the…
- Physician-assisted suicide Suicide: The voluntary termination of one's own life by administration of a lethal substance with the direct…
- Dermatome (1) A localized area of skin that is has its sensation via a single nerve from a single nerve root of the…
- Congenital osseus-torticollis syndrome See: Klippel-Feil sequence