the most common hereditary disease; the child's lungs and intestines and pancreas become clogged with thick mucus; caused by defect in…
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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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the most common hereditary disease; the child's lungs and intestines and pancreas become clogged with thick mucus; caused by defect in…
Used in the same subject area: Medicine and healthcare, Pathology, Medical genetics.the most common hereditary disease; the child's lungs and intestines and pancreas become clogged with thick mucus; caused by defect in…
Used in the same subject area: Medicine and healthcare, Pathology, Medical genetics.thickening of the skin (usually unilateral on an extremity) caused by congenital enlargement of lymph vessel and lymph vessel obstruct…
Used in the same subject area: Medicine and healthcare, Pathology, Medical genetics.thickening of the skin (usually unilateral on an extremity) caused by congenital enlargement of lymph vessel and lymph vessel obstruct…
Used in the same subject area: Medicine and healthcare, Pathology, Medical genetics.the most common hereditary disease; the child's lungs and intestines and pancreas become clogged with thick mucus; caused by defect in…
Used in the same subject area: Medicine and healthcare, Pathology, Medical genetics.(pathology) a waxy translucent complex protein resembling starch that results from degeneration of tissue
Used in the same subject area: Medicine and healthcare, Pathology.(pathology) an elevation of the skin filled with serous fluid
Used in the same subject area: Medicine and healthcare, Pathology.(pathology) an elevation of the skin filled with serous fluid
Used in the same subject area: Medicine and healthcare, Pathology.(pathology) an elevation of the skin filled with serous fluid
Used in the same subject area: Medicine and healthcare, Pathology.(pathology) a deadly form of gangrene usually caused by clostridium bacteria that produce toxins that cause tissue death; can be used…
Used in the same subject area: Medicine and healthcare, Pathology.(pathology) gangrene that develops in the presence of arterial obstruction and is characterized by dryness of the dead tissue and a da…
Used in the same subject area: Medicine and healthcare, Pathology.(pathology) gangrene that develops in the presence of arterial obstruction and is characterized by dryness of the dead tissue and a da…
Used in the same subject area: Medicine and healthcare, Pathology.(pathology) a deadly form of gangrene usually caused by clostridium bacteria that produce toxins that cause tissue death; can be used…
Used in the same subject area: Medicine and healthcare, Pathology.(pathology) a deadly form of gangrene usually caused by clostridium bacteria that produce toxins that cause tissue death; can be used…
Used in the same subject area: Medicine and healthcare, Pathology.(pathology) an abnormal outgrowth or enlargement of some part of the body
Used in the same subject area: Medicine and healthcare, Pathology.(pathology) a deadly form of gangrene usually caused by clostridium bacteria that produce toxins that cause tissue death; can be used…
Used in the same subject area: Medicine and healthcare, Pathology.(pathology) a deadly form of gangrene usually caused by clostridium bacteria that produce toxins that cause tissue death; can be used…
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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.a legal proceeding that creates a parent-child relation between persons not related by blood; the adopted child is entitled to all pri…
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.One who, by character of practice, shows signs of relationship to, or of the influence of, another; one closely connected with a place…
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.To become clogged; to become loaded or encumbered, as with extraneous matter.
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.Failing; fault; imperfection, whether physical or moral; blemish; as, a defect in the ear or eye; a defect in timber or iron; a defect…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: common, hereditary, disease, child, lungs.Motion affected with slowness and difficulty, as if clogged.
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…
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