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Definition of information technology (noun)
form plural: information technologies

methods of calculating and processing data communications

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IT has helped revolutionize the practice of medicine.

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Definition of mercury (noun)
form: no plural

a silver metallic element with the chemical symbol Mg

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Mercury is used to make thermometers.

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Definition of fibrosis (noun)
abnormal skin tissue growth

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The most dramatic feature about the genes mutated so as to cause muscular dystrophy and cystic fibrosis, however, is that they were discovered by reverse genetics -- neither dystrophin nor cystic fibrosis transmembrane receptor were known to exist in the body before they were discovered by Kunkel and Tsui respectively.

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Definition of rheumatic (adjective)
relating to the joints

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She complained of rheumatic pain, especially in the winter.
There are many other more common causes of aortic incompetence, including rheumatic fever, but cases of syphilitic aortic-valve disease still turn up from time to time in this country, albeit rarely.

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Definition of neurilemma (noun)
form plural: neurilemmas

a cellular sheath composed of Schwann cells which envelops the axons of peripheral neurons

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The neurilemma is important in the regeneration of nerve tissue following injury.

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Definition of immunocompetent (adjective)
forms: more immunocompetent; most immunocompetent

able to resist disease and produce adequate responses

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Immunocompetent people can fight infections more easily than immunodeficient people.

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Definition of competitive inhibition (noun)
form plural: competitive inhibitions

interference of enzyme action by an abnormal substrate that blocks the normal substrate entering the active site

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Competitive inhibition is a form of reversible enzyme inhibition.
The scale of the amine abnormality is proportional to the degree of hyperphenylalaninaemia and probably depends on the combined effects of competitive inhibition of tyrosine and tryptophan hydroxylases (by phenylalanine) and a deficiency of the amino acid substrates for these enzymes.

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Definition of cilium (noun)
form plural: cilia

hair-like organelle found in eukaryotic cells

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Cilia line the upper respiratory tract and are damaged by cigarette smoke.

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Definition of centriole (noun)
form plural: centrioles

hollow cylinders containing nine microtubule triplets

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Centrioles help form the mitotic spindle in cell division.

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Definition of fissure (noun)
form plural: fissures

a crack e.g. in the skin

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Eczema may leave open fissures in the skin.

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