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Tissue, connective
See: Connective tissue
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- Eye The organ of sight. The eye has a number of components. These components include but are not limited to the…
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- Computerized tomography Pictures of structures within the body created by a computer that takes the data from multiple X-ray images…
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- Immunity The condition of being immune. Immunity can be innate (for example, humans are innately immune to canine…
- Chromosome, Y See: Y chromosome
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