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Pronunciation: /glycan*/

glycan

Definition

A large carbohydrate molecule. It contains many small sugar molecules that are joined chemically. Also called polysaccharide.

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kyphosis

pioglitazone

yttrium Y 90-ibritumomab tiuxetan

autosomal recessive inheritance

Kaposi sarcoma

Apo-2L

hyperdiploid

HLH

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delanzomib

CDK2/4/6 inhibitor SYH2043

anti-CD19-CAR-CD3zeta-4-1BB-expressing natural killer cells

ferumoxytol non-stoichiometric magnetite

patritumab

Rapamune

testolactone

anti-interleukin-2 receptor subunit gamma monoclonal antibody REGN7257

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splice-site variant

mosaicism

false-positive result

reduced penetrance

homozygous genotype

oral papilloma

null allele

double heterozygosity

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