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the most common hereditary disease; the child's lungs and intestines and pancreas become clogged with thick mucus; caused by defect in a single gene; no cure is known
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a silvery soft waxy metallic element of the alkali metal group; occurs abundantly in natural compounds (especially in salt water); bur…
Used in the same subject area: Inorganic chemistry, Medicine and healthcare, Chemistry, General chemistry.a light soft silver-white metallic element of the alkali metal group; oxidizes rapidly in air and reacts violently with water; is abun…
Used in the same subject area: Inorganic chemistry, Medicine and healthcare, Chemistry, General chemistry.No, not. See No.
Used in the same subject area: Inorganic chemistry, Medicine and healthcare, Chemistry, General chemistry.An Alkali element, occurring abundantly but always combined, as in the chloride, sulphate, carbonate, or silicate, in the minerals syl…
Used in the same subject area: Inorganic chemistry, Medicine and healthcare, Chemistry, General chemistry.A common metallic element of the alkali group, in nature always occuring combined, as in common salt, in albite, etc. It is isolated a…
Used in the same subject area: Inorganic chemistry, Medicine and healthcare, Chemistry, General chemistry.Composed of two or more parts; composite; not simple; as, a complex being; a complex idea.
Used in the same subject area: Inorganic chemistry, Chemistry, General chemistry.a compound described in terms of the central atom to which other atoms are bound or coordinated
Used in the same subject area: Inorganic chemistry, Chemistry, General chemistry.a compound containing an alkyl or aryl radical bonded to a metal.; "Tetracarbonyl nickel, and ferrocene are examples of organometallic…
Used in the same subject area: Inorganic chemistry, Chemistry, General chemistry.An elementary substance, as sodium, calcium, or copper, whose oxide or hydroxide has basic rather than acid properties, as contrasted…
Used in the same subject area: Inorganic chemistry, Chemistry, General chemistry.any of several chemical elements that are usually shiny solids that conduct heat or electricity and can be formed into sheets etc.
Used in the same subject area: Inorganic chemistry, Chemistry, General chemistry.(physiology) the normal equilibrium between acids and alkalis in the body; "with a normal acid-base balance in the body the blood is s…
Used in the same subject area: Medicine and healthcare, Chemistry, General chemistry.(physiology) the normal equilibrium between acids and alkalis in the body; "with a normal acid-base balance in the body the blood is s…
Used in the same subject area: Medicine and healthcare, Chemistry, General chemistry.A protein produced by the immune system to neutralize pathogens.
Used in the same subject area: Medicine and healthcare, Chemistry, General chemistry.The technical name for urea.
Used in the same subject area: Medicine and healthcare, Chemistry, General chemistry.any of various protein molecules secreted by cells of the immune system that serve to regulate the immune system
Used in the same subject area: Medicine and healthcare, Chemistry, General chemistry.A very soluble crystalline body which is the chief constituent of the urine in mammals and some other animals. It is also present in s…
Used in the same subject area: Medicine and healthcare, Chemistry, General chemistry.a white tasteless odorless crystalline product of protein metabolism; found in the blood and urine
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To take by choice into relationship, as, child, heir, friend, citizen, etc.; esp. to take voluntarily (a child of other parents) to be…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: common, hereditary, disease, child, lungs.The act of adopting, or state of being adopted; voluntary acceptance of a child of other parents to be the same as one's own child.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: common, hereditary, disease, child, lungs.A "natural" child; a child begotten and born out of wedlock; an illegitimate child; one born of an illicit union.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: common, hereditary, disease, child, lungs.A son or a daughter; a male or female descendant, in the first degree; the immediate progeny of human parents; -- in law, legitimate o…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: common, hereditary, disease, child, lungs.The pulpy mass of semi-digested food in the small intestines just after its passage from the stomach. It is separated in the intestine…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: common, hereditary, disease, child, lungs.That which hinders or impedes motion; hence, an encumbrance, restraint, or impediment, of any kind.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: common, hereditary, disease, child, lungs.The state of being clogged.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: common, hereditary, disease, child, lungs.Negligence or fault, as distinguishable from dolus (deceit, fraud), which implies intent, culpa being imputable to defect of intellect…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: common, hereditary, disease, child, lungs.Daggle-tailed; having the tail clogged with daglocks.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: common, hereditary, disease, child, lungs.Want or absence of something necessary for completeness or perfection; deficiency; -- opposed to superfluity.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: common, hereditary, disease, child, lungs.A confection; a comfit; a drug.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: common, hereditary, disease, child, lungs.A disease attended with inflammation and ulceration of the colon and rectum, and characterized by griping pains, constant desire to ev…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: common, hereditary, disease, child, lungs.
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