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Genetic disorders

Genetic diseases, syndromes, or conditions caused by genetic variations and abnormalities in genes or chromosomes.

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Genetic disorders

hypothalamus

Health care; Genetic disorders

The area of the brain that controls body temperature, hunger, and thirst.

radioactive

Health care; Genetic disorders

Giving off radiation.

hypodontia

Health care; Genetic disorders

An especially congenital condition marked by a less than normal number of teeth : partial anodontia.

monogenic

Health care; Genetic disorders

Of, relating to, or controlled by a single gene and especially by either of an allelic pair.

akinesia

Health care; Genetic disorders

Loss or impairment of voluntary activity (as of a muscle).

exostoses

Health care; Genetic disorders

Benign hypertrophy that projects outward from the surface of bone, often containing a cartilaginous component.

chronic myelomonocytic leukemia (CMML)

Health care; Genetic disorders

A slowly progressing type of myelodysplastic/myeloproliferative disease in which too many myelomonocytes (a type of white blood cell) are in the bone marrow, crowding out other normal blood cells, ...

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