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Reactant, acute phase
See: Acute-phase protein
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- Tonsils Small masses of lymphoid tissue at the back of the throat, on either side of the throat
- Parkinsonism 1. Parkinson disease. 2. A syndrome similar to Parkinson disease, for example, as a side effect of an…
- Cryocardioplegia Paralysis of the heart by cold (hypothermia)
- Allergy Allergy: A misguided reaction to foreign substances by the immune system, the body system of defense against…
- MRSI Magnetic resonance spectroscopic imaging
- Cancer of the tongue See: Tongue cancer
- Lenin (1870-1924) Vladimir Ilyich Lenin, the founder of the Bolshevik Party and the Soviet state. Lenin is of some…
- Pain, false labor The pain associated with intermittent non-productive muscular contractions of the womb (uterus) during…
- Crypt In anatomy, a crypt is variously a blind alley, a tube with no exit, a depression, or a pit -- in an…
- Colony-stimulating factor A laboratory-made agent similar to a substance in the body that stimulates the production of blood cells…
- Endometrium The uterine lining; the cells that line the uterus (the womb); the inner layer of the uterus. This tissue is…