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51Disease, Hirschsprung — A congenital abnormality (birth defect) of the bowel in which there is absence of the ganglia (nerves) in the wall of the bowel. Nerves are missing starting at the anus and extending a variable distance up the bowel. This results in megacolon… …
52Disease, His — Named for the Swiss physician Wilhelm His, Jr. (who also described the bundle of His in the heart), this is a louse borne disease first recognized in the trenches of World War I and so was called trench fever. Trench fever is a disease is… …
53Disease, rotator cuff — Damage to the rotator cuff, a group of four tendons that stabilize the shoulder joint and move the shoulder in various directions. A common cause of shoulder pain, rotator cuff disease can be due to trauma (e.g., from falling and injuring the… …
54Disease, Werner-His — Named for the German physician Heinrich Werner (who did not describe Werner s premature aging syndrome) and the Swiss physician Wilhelm His, Jr. (who did describe the bundle of His in the heart), this is a louse borne disease that was first… …
55Common Fisheries Policy — The Common Fisheries Policy (CFP) is the fisheries policy of the European Union (EU). It sets quotas for which member states are allowed to catch what amounts of each type of fish, as well as encouraging the fishing industry by various market… …
56Disease, Charcot-Marie-Tooth — A neuromuscular disease that is the most common inherited disorder of peripheral nerves, characterized by progressively debilitating weakness. The disease is also called peroneal muscular atrophy. The foremost feature of Charcot Marie Tooth… …
57Disease, delta-storage pool — A genetic (inherited) disorder, also known as the Hermansky Pudlak syndrome (HPS), characterized by albinism (with lack of skin and eye pigment), bruising and prolonged bleeding (due to defective blood platelets), and fibrosis of the lungs. In… …
58Disease, His-Werner — Named for the Swiss physician Wilhelm His, Jr. (who also described the bundle of His in the heart) and the German physician Heinrich Werner (who was not the Werner who described Werner s syndrome). This is a louse borne disease that was first… …
59common — adj. 1 happening/found often VERBS ▪ be, seem ▪ become ▪ remain ADVERB ▪ extremely, fairly …
60Common gamma chain — Interleukin 2 receptor, gamma (severe combined immunodeficiency) Crystallographic structure of IL 2 (center alpha helices) complexed with the common gamma chain (IL2RG; 10 O Clock to 1 O Clock), IL2RA (4 O Clock), and IL2RB (7 O Clock to 9 O… …
