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Exercise treadmill
Exercise on a treadmill, a machine with a moving strip on which one walks without moving forward. A treadmill was originally a wide wheel turned by the weight of people climbing on steps around its edge, used in the past to provide power…
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- Pediatric renal infection See: Urinary tract infection in children
- Transsexualism A consistently strong desire to change one's anatomical gender. Some transsexuals were misassigned gender at…
- Nyctanopia Impaired vision in dim light and in the dark, due to impaired function of the rods in the retina. Night…
- Recombinant tPA Recombinant tissue plasminogen activator. See: Tissue plasminogen activator
- Chasing the dragon A practice of heroin use involving heating heroin and then inhaling it. Some heroin users have gone to this…
- CABG, off-pump See: Off-pump CABG
- Gray baby syndrome A syndrome due to toxicity of the antibiotic chloramphenicol in the newborn, especially the premature…
- Homozygote A person who has two identical forms of a particular gene, one inherited from each parent. For example, a…
- PMLD Pelizaeus-Merzbacher-like disease
- Genes, breast cancer susceptibility Breast cancer susceptibility: Inherited factors that predispose to breast cancer. Put otherwise, these genes…
- Cloning, therapeutic See: Therapeutic cloning