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Reporting, anonymous
In public health, anonymous reporting permits the acquisition of certain data such as the proportion of persons with a positive test or with a disease. It is different from anonymous testing, in which no name is used on the test sample
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- Basophilic leukocyte See: Basophil
- Syndrome, Werner A premature aging disease that begins in adolescence or early in adulthood and results in apparent old age by…
- Gallus gallus The Red Jungle Fowl, the ancestor of domestic chickens
- Octalene Trade name of the insecticide aldrin. See: Aldrin and dieldrin
- Hormone, thyrotropin A hormone produced by the pituitary gland at the base of the brain in response to signals from the…
- Factor V A coagulation factor needed for the normal clotting of blood. Also known as proaccelerin
- Familial hypertrophic cardiomyopathy A genetic disorder of the heart characterized by increased growth (hypertrophy) in thickness of the wall of…
- Von Hippel-Lindau syndrome A genetic disease characterized by: > >hemangioblastomas (benign blood vessel tumors) in the brain, spinal…
- DBT Dialectical behavioral therapy
- Kinship Relationship by marriage or, specifically, a blood tie.