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Show more- Werner syndrome A premature aging disease that begins in adolescence or early in adulthood and results in apparent old age by…
- Regress To return or go back, particularly to return to a pattern of behavior or level of skill characteristic of a…
- Hemarthrosis Blood in a joint.
- Leukemia Leukemia: Cancer of the blood cells. The growth and development of the blood cells are abnormal. Strictly…
- Ginseng An herb that has been used to stimulate the adrenal gland and thereby increase energy. It also may have some…
- Electrocochleography A test that measures the electrical potentials generated in the inner ear in response to stimulation by…
- Structural genomics The study of the proteome, the three-dimensional structures of thousands upon thousands of proteins, in fact…
- Sidney Goldring See: Goldring, Sidney
- Angiography, fluorescein See: Von Willebrand disease.
- Hip pointer Sportstalk for an iliac crest contusion (a bruise of the upper edge of the ilium, one of the hip bones).
- Carcinoma Cancer that begins in the skin or in tissues that line or cover body organs. For example, carcinoma can arise…
- MSTN The gene for myostatin