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American Psychiatric Association
A medical specialty society with over 35,000 US and international member physicians who 'work together to ensure humane care and effective treatment for all persons with mental disorder, including mental retardation and substance-related…
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- Intrathecal chemotherapy Chemotherapy: Treatment with drugs that are injected into the fluid surrounding the brain and spinal cord…
- Male sexual orientation gene See: Gay gene
- Cross-species transplantation See Xenotransplantation
- CMG2 Capillary morphogenesis gene 2, a transmembrane protein that is induced during capillary morphogenesis (the…
- Small inducible cytokine A2 See: MPC1
- Hepatology The field of liver disease. The liver is the body's largest organ and hepatology is a large field. It…
- Ehrlichiosis An acute (abrupt onset) disease, first reported in humans in 1986, due to infection by the rickettsial agent…
- Test, syphilis (FTA-ABS) The fluorescent treponemal antibody absorbed (FTA-ABS) test for syphilis is a blood serum screening test…
- Anomalad, Klippel-Feil See: Klippel-Feil sequence
- DXA bone scan See: DXA
- Cryoglobulinemia The presence in blood of abnormal proteins called cryoglobulins that, by definition, have the unusual…