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Big bone disease
See: Kashin-Beck disease
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Show more- Syndrome, Li-Fraumeni (LFS) This is an extraordinary cancer family syndrome. People with LFS have a tendency to develop a great diversity…
- Sedimentation rate Sedimentation rate: A blood test that detects and monitors inflammation in the body. It measures the rate at…
- Acetylcysteine An antioxidant drug used to reduce the thickness of mucus and ease its removal. It is also used to reverse…
- PI In medecine, not a private investigator but a principal investigator, the person who directs a research…
- Acute confusional state See: Delirium
- Pollinosis 1. Hay fever in response to pollen. 2. Hay fever in response to any allergen. See: Hay fever.
- DNA, satellite DNA that contains many tandem (not inverted) repeats of a short basic repeating unit. Satellite DNA is…
- Homo sapiens The primate species of mammal to which modern humans belong. Homo sapiens is Latin for knowing man or wise man
- Histiocytosis, Langerhans cell Histiocytosis in which the active histiocytes normally occur in the skin. See histiocytosis.
- Metaphase chromosome A chromosome in the stage of the cell cycle (the sequence of events in the life of a cell) when a chromosome…
- Blistering agent See: Vesicant
- Nodular Bumpy.