Category: L

The general term for substances present in some organisms, which become luminescent when acted on by luciferase.  

The quality of clearness or brightness, especially with regard to mental conditions.  

The disease produced by the bite of the brown recluse spider, Loxosceles laeta or L. reclusa. Symptoms include a painful red vesicle that eventually becomes necrotic, leaving a skin ulcer. Rarely, the spider bite may produce hemolytic anemia or renal failure.  

A genus of spiders, family Loxoscelidae, which includes the brown recluse spider.  

Oblique deformity of a joint without dislocation.  

Any of several lasers that cause photochemical changes in body tissues without producing thermal changes.  

An alternative treatment for sleep disorders in which the oral mucosa is stimulated by low-wattage electromagnetic fields.  

An identifier assigned to a batch of medications. It facilitates drug manufacturing inventory control and tracing adverse incidents in a batch of contaminated medications.  

In clinical medicine and research, a person who has not returned for continued care or evaluation (e.g., because of death, disability, relocation, or drop-out).  

A mixture of two fats (glyceryl-trioleate and glyceryltrierucate) used to treat neurological disorders, including adrenoleukodystrophy.