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Eye retraction syndrome
See: Duane syndrome
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- Mitotic Pertaining to mitosis.
- Baker's yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae
- Lice, pubic See: Pubic lice
- Robertsonian translocation A common and significant type of chromosome rearrangement that is formed by fusion of the whole long arms of…
- Ear canal, self-cleaning Most of the time the ear canals are self-cleaning, that is, there is a slow and orderly migration of ear…
- Hemorrhoid A dilated (enlarged) vein in the walls of the anus and sometimes around the rectum, usually caused by…
- MS/MS Abbreviation for tandem mass spectrometry. See: Tandem mass spectrometry
- Monocyte chemotactic and activating factor See: MPC1
- LFCN Lateral femoral cutaneous nerve. See also: Meralgia paresthetica
- Macules Small circumscribed changes in the color of skin that are neither raised (elevated) nor depressed. Macules…
- Pressor substance A substance that elevates the arterial blood pressure. For example, prostacyclin (prostaglandin PGI2) is a…