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A method used to identify a disease.  

A heterogeneous group of disorders that share glucose intolerance in common. A metabolic disorder involving impaired metabolism of glucose due to either failure of secretion of the hormone insulin (insulin-dependent or type I diabetes) or impaired responses of tissues to insulin (non- insulin-dependent or type II diabetes). Abnormally high blood sugar levels caused by lack…

Deuterium. The stable isotope of hydrogen. It has one neutron and one proton in the nucleus. A hydrogen isotope having twice the mass of the common hydrogen atom. The isotope of hydrogen, whose mass is 2, sometimes called heavy hydrogen.  

Diethylstilbestrol. A synthetic hormone that was prescribed from the early 1940s until 1971 to help women with complications of pregnancy. DES has been linked to an increased risk of clear cell carcinoma of the vagina in daughters of women who used DES. DES may also increase the risk of breast cancer in women who used…

Pertaining to or coming from the skin.  

An affective disorder manifested by either a dysphoric mood or loss of interest or pleasure in usual activities. The mood disturbance is prominent and relatively persistent.  

The process or act of neutralizing polarity. In neurophysiology, the reversal of the resting potential in excitable cell membranes when stimulated, i.e., the tendency of the cell membrane potential to become positive with respect to the potential outside the cell. The loss of membrane potential that occurs during electrical signaling in cells such as neurons.…

A purine or pyrimidine base bonded to a deoxyribose containing a bond to a phosphate group.  

A polymer of subunits called deoxyribonucleotides which is the primary genetic material of a cell, the material equivalent to genetic information.