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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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Actinidia

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A plant species of the family actinidiaceae, order theales.

Actinidia

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A plant species of the family actinidiaceae, order theales.

Actinidiaceae

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A plant family of the order theales, subclass Dilleniidae, class magnoliopsida. It is best known for Kiwi fruit (actinidia).

Actinidia deliciosa

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Actinidia deliciosa (A. Chev.) C. F. Liang & A. R. Ferguson = actinidia chinensis P.

Activated form of factor XII. In the initial event in the intrinsic pathway of blood coagulation, kallikrein (with cofactor high molecular weight kininogen) cleaves factor XII to XIIa. Factor XIIa is ...

Activated factor VIII

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Activated form of factor VIII. The B-domain of factor VIII is proteolytically cleaved by thrombin to form factor VIIIa. Factor VIIIa exists as a non-covalent dimer in a metal-linked (probably ...

Activated leukocyte cell adhesion molecule

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Cell adhesion molecule expressed on activated leukocytes, fibroblasts, and neurons. It is a ligand for CD6. Alcam-CD6 interactions may play a role in the binding of T and B cells to activated ...