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Metabolic syndrome

Agriculture; General agriculture

A combination of health conditions including diabetes, hyperlipidemia and obesity, that place a person at high risk for heart disease.

Nephrotic syndrome

Agriculture; General agriculture

Clinical association of heavy proteinuria, hypoalbuminemia, and generalised edema.

Porcine reproductive and respiratory syndrome

Agriculture; General agriculture

A syndrome characterised by outbreaks of late term abortions, high numbers of stillbirths and mummified or weak newborn piglets, and respiratory disease in young unweaned and weaned pigs.

Polycystic ovary syndrome

Agriculture; General agriculture

A complex disorder characterised by infertility, hirsutism; obesity; and various menstrual disturbances such as oligomenorrhea; amenorrhea; anovulation. Polycystic ovary syndrome is usually ...

Sindbis virus

Agriculture; General agriculture

The type species of Alphavirus normally transmitted to birds by Culex mosquitoes in Egypt, South Africa, India, Malaya, the Philippines, and Australia. It may be associated with fever in humans.

Synaptosomes

Agriculture; General agriculture

Pinched-off nerve endings and their contents of vesicles and cytoplasm together with the attached subsynaptic area of the membrane of the post-synaptic cell. They are largely artificial structures ...

Synapse

Agriculture; General agriculture

Specialised junctions at which a neuron communicates with a target cell. At classical synapses, a neuron's presynaptic terminal releases a chemical transmitter stored in synaptic vesicles which ...

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