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sensorineural

Biology; Genetics

Of, relating to, or involving the aspects of sense perception mediated by nerves (sensorineural hearing loss).

vitamin h

Biology; Genetics

A water-soluble, enzyme co-factor present in minute amounts in every living cell. It occurs mainly bound to proteins or polypeptides and is abundant in liver, kidney, pancreas, yeast, and milk.

nondisjunction, genetic

Biology; Genetics

The failure of homologous CHROMOSOMES or CHROMATIDS to segregate during MITOSIS or MEIOSIS with the result that one daughter cell has both of a pair of parental chromosomes or chromatids and the ...

Increased susceptibility to a particular disease due to the presence of one or more gene mutations, and/or a combination of alleles (haplotype), not necessarily abnormal, that is associated with an ...

pulmonic stenosis

Biology; Genetics

Abnormal narrowing of the orifice between the pulmonary artery and the right ventricle; called also pulmonic stenosis.

unilateral paresis

Biology; Genetics

Muscular weakness or partial paralysis restricted to one side of the body (discharged with a residual partial right hemiparesis -- P. W. Wright).

intermediate allele

Biology; Genetics

In disorders caused by trinucleotide repeat expansions, an abnormally large allele that is not associated with clinical symptoms but that can expand into a full mutation when transmitted to offspring ...