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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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plasticity
Health care; Genetic disorders
1) The quality or state of being plastic; especially: capacity for being molded or altered. 2) The ability to retain a shape attained by pressure deformation. 3) The capacity of organisms with the ...
pylorus
Health care; Genetic disorders
1) The region of the stomach at the junction with the duodenum. It is marked by the thickening of circular muscle layers forming the pyloric sphincter to control the opening and closure of the ...
circadian rhythms
Health care; Genetic disorders
1) The regular recurrence, in cycles of about 24 hours, of biological processes or activities, such as sensitivity to drugs and stimuli, hormone secretion, sleeping, feeding, etc. This rhythm seems ...
phylogeny
Health care; Genetic disorders
1) The relationships of groups of organisms as reflected by their genetic makeup. 2) The evolutionary history of a kind of organism. 3) The evolution of a genetically related group of organisms as ...
phylogenesis
Health care; Genetic disorders
1) The relationships of groups of organisms as reflected by their genetic makeup. 2) The evolutionary history of a kind of organism. 3) The evolution of a genetically related group of organisms as ...
sarcomere
Health care; Genetic disorders
1) The repeating contractile units of the myofibril, delimited by Z bands along its length. 2) Any of the repeating structural units of striated muscle fibrils.
nucleosome
Health care; Genetic disorders
1) The repeating structural units of chromatin, each consisting of approximately 200 base pairs of DNA wound around a protein core. This core is composed of the histones H2A, H2B, H3, and H4. 2) Any ...
