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Filial
1. In genetics, the first generation that results from the crossing of two parental lines, as the filial generation. 2. In general, pertaining to the relationship of children, both sons and daughters, to their parents. From the Latin…
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- Caesarian section Also referred to as a C-section. A procedure in which a baby, rather than being born vaginally, is surgically…
- Marker, blood A sign of a disease or condition that can be isolated from a blood sample. For example, the monoclonal…
- Plyometrics Any exercise in which muscles are repeatedly and rapidly stretched ('loaded') and then contracted (as in…
- Wymmin An alternate spelling of wimmin
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- Nephrosis Non-inflammatory, non-neoplastic disease of the kidney. Nephrosis an be caused by kidney disease, or it may…