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- Gonadotropin, human chorionic See: Human chorionic gonadotropin
- Smith-Magenis syndrome A syndrome of abnormal physical, developmental and behavioral features due to microdeletion of chromosome 17…
- Fontanel (fontanelle) The word fontanel comes from the French fontaine for fountain. The medical term fontanel is a 'soft spot' of…
- HCM Abbreviation for hematocrit. The hematocrit is the proportion, by volume, of the blood that consists of red…
- Melanoma, choroidal Malignant melanoma that arises in the eye. See ocular melanoma
- Ant, fire Also called thief ants, a scourge, these red or yellow ants of small-to-medium size, originally from South…
- Osteogenesis The production of bone
- Martin Rodbell See: Rodbell, Martin
- Bacteriophage See: Phage
- Collagen injection The practice of injecting collagen into a part of the face or body to make it larger, most often performed on…
- Mutation, point A single nucleotide base change in the DNA. A point mutation may consist of the loss of a nucleotide, the…