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Pronunciation: /ʤərm/

germ

Definition

A bacterium, virus, or other microorganism that can cause infection and disease.

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anti-VEGFR-2 fully human monoclonal antibody IMC-1121B

milk thistle

romiplostim

ACF

clinical staging

TCM

in situ

CEV

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anti-nucleolin aptamer AS1411

L-methylfolate

androgen receptor degrader HP518

autologous cytokine-induced killer cells/vaccinia virus DD-CDSR CRX100

defactinib

Relenza

allogeneic skin-derived ABCB5-positive MSCs allo-APZ2-OTS

synthetic brain tumor peptides-pulsed autologous dendritic cell vaccine

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autosomal recessive inheritance

pathognomonic

single nucleotide polymorphism

germline mosaicism

negative predictive value

mutation

translation

sebaceoma

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