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Medicine
The science and art of healing that employs a variety of health care practices to maintain and restore health by the prevention and treatment of illness.
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5p deletion syndrome
Medical; Medicine
An infantile syndrome characterised by a cat-like cry, failure to thrive, microcephaly, mental retardation, spastic quadriparesis, micro- and retrognathia, glossoptosis, bilateral epicanthus, ...
5p minus syndrome
Medical; Medicine
An infantile syndrome characterised by a cat-like cry, failure to thrive, microcephaly, mental retardation, spastic quadriparesis, micro- and retrognathia, glossoptosis, bilateral epicanthus, ...
6 hydroxydopamine
Medical; Medicine
A neurotransmitter analogue that depletes noradrenergic stores in nerve endings and induces a reduction of dopamine levels in the brain. Its mechanism of action is related to the production of ...
Oxidopamine
Medical; Medicine
A neurotransmitter analogue that depletes noradrenergic stores in nerve endings and induces a reduction of dopamine levels in the brain. Its mechanism of action is related to the production of ...
6 iodomethylnorcholesterol
Medical; Medicine
A sterol usually substituted with radioactive iodine. It is an adrenal cortex scanning agent with demonstrated high adrenal concentration and superior adrenal imaging.
6 ketoprostaglandin F1 alpha
Medical; Medicine
The physiologically active and stable hydrolysis product of epoprostenol. Found in nearly all mammalian tissue.
