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| Description of information technology (noun: plural: information technologies) methods of calculating and processing data communications Samples of information technology IT has helped revolutionize the practice of medicine.
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| Description of mercury (noun: no plural) a silver metallic element with the chemical symbol Mg Samples of mercury Mercury is used to make thermometers.
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| Description of fibrosis (noun) abnormal skin tissue growth Samples of fibrosis 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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| Description of rheumatic (adjective) relating to the joints Samples of rheumatic 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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| Description of neurilemma (noun: plural: neurilemmas) a cellular sheath composed of Schwann cells which envelops the axons of peripheral neurons Samples of neurilemma The neurilemma is important in the regeneration of nerve tissue following injury.
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| Description of immunocompetent (adjective: more immunocompetent; most immunocompetent) able to resist disease and produce adequate responses Samples of immunocompetent Immunocompetent people can fight infections more easily than immunodeficient people.
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| Description of competitive inhibition (noun: plural: competitive inhibitions) interference of enzyme action by an abnormal substrate that blocks the normal substrate entering the active site Samples of competitive inhibition 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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| Description of cilium (noun: plural: cilia) hair-like organelle found in eukaryotic cells Samples of cilium Cilia line the upper respiratory tract and are damaged by cigarette smoke.
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| Description of centriole (noun: plural: centrioles) hollow cylinders containing nine microtubule triplets Samples of centriole Centrioles help form the mitotic spindle in cell division.
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| Description of fissure (noun: plural: fissures) a crack e.g. in the skin Samples of fissure Eczema may leave open fissures in the skin.
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