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Histidine
An amino acid, one of the 20 building blocks of protein. An essential amino acid, histidine is present in many proteins. Histidine is elevated in the blood and urine in a genetic condition called histidinemia. Decarboxylation of histidine…
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- MDR Minimal daily requirement. Multidrug resistant
- Study, electrophysiologic See: Framingham Study.
- Infantile genetic agranulocytosis Children born with this condition lack neutrophils (a type of white blood cell that is important in fighting…
- Prenatal surgery The surgical treatment of the fetus before birth. Also called antenatal surgery or, most often, fetal…
- Neonatal chloramphenicol toxicity See: Gray baby syndrome
- Casals-Ariet See: Casals-Ariet, Jordi
- Lytic Suffix having to do with lysis (destruction), as in hemolytic anemia, the excessive destruction of red blood…
- AANAT The synbol for the enzyme arylalkylamine N-acetyltransferase and for the gene that encodes it. AANAT is…
- Locus minoris resistentiae Latin meaning a place of less resistance. A locus minoris resistentiae offers little resistance to…
- Pulse, Corrigan A pulse that is full and then suddenly collapses. Named for the Irish physician Dominic John Corrigan…
- Arenaviridae See: Arenavirus