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Medicine

The science and art of healing that employs a variety of health care practices to maintain and restore health by the prevention and treatment of illness.

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Achromobacter

Medical; Medicine

A gram-negative bacterial genus of uncertain clinical significance, closely related to members of the Alcaligenes and Ochrobactrum species.

A gram-negative genus of bacteria similar to Alcaligenes and Pseudomonas spp. in their distribution in environmental and water sources and their culture characteristics. These have been isolated from ...

Bethesda-Ballerup group

Medical; Medicine

A group of citrate-using, slow lactose-fermenting bacteria (family Enterobacteriaceae), which share a similar series of antigens with the lactose-fermenting citrobacters; these organisms are now ...

Ornithodoros moubata complex

Medical; Medicine

A group of four tick species in Africa; the taxonomy and ecology of this complex is of great significance because its members are vectors of relapsing fever spirochetes; members of the complex ...

Bassora gum

Medical; Medicine

A gum from Iran and Turkey, resembling tragacanth, acacia, and the gummy exudate of cherry and plum trees; used in making storax.

olibanum

Medical; Medicine

A gum resin from several trees of the genus Boswellia (family Burseraceae); used as a stimulant expectorant in bronchitis, for fumigations, and as incense.

hemoglobin Bart

Medical; Medicine

A Hb homotetramer (all four polypeptides identical) of formula γ4, found in the early embryo and in α-thalassemia 2; not effective in oxygen transport; does not display a Bohr effect.