Kara Rogers
Location:
Chicago, Ill., U.S.
Institution/Affiliation:
Encyclopaedia Britannica, Inc.
Field(s) of Expertise:
Biomedical and life sciences
Biographical Information
Rogers is the senior editor of biomedical sciences at Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc. She holds a Ph.D. in pharmacology and toxicology from the University of Arizona, where her research focused on understanding the role of antioxidants in mitochondria. Rogers has written for various publications on topics ranging from medicine and genetics to animals and nature. She is a member of the National Association of Science Writers and writes regularly for the Britannica Blog. NaturePhiles is her blog within a blog on the Science Friday Initiative site TalkingScience.org.
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abiogenesis |
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| ABO blood group system |
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| Abraham Janssens |
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| acarid |
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| acetaminophen |
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| acetone |
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| acoustic neuroma |
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| acrylamide |
| actinomycete |
| activities of daily living |
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Ada Yonath |
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| adenosine triphosphate |
| adenovirus |
| adenovirus infection |
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| adipose tissue |
| adipsia |
| admiral |
| adolescence |
| adoption medicine |
| adrenal gland |
| adrenergic drug |
| adrenocorticotropic hormone |
| adulthood |
| aecium |
| aflatoxin |
| African swine fever |
| Agaricales |
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aging |
| agnosia |
| agoraphobia |
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AIDS |
| airport |
| Albert Victor Crewe |
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| alcohol |
| alcoholism |
| aldehyde |
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| aldrin |
| Alexander Gordon Bearn |
| Alexander Graham Bell |
| Alexander Monro, secundus |
| Alexis Carrel |
| Alfred G. Gilman |
| Alfred Junge |
| algae |
| Alice Hamilton |
| alimentary canal |
| alkalosis |
| alkaptonuria |
| alkylating agent |
| Alphonse Laveran |
| altitude sickness |
| Alzheimer disease |
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| amantadine |
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| angiogenesis inhibitor |
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| Anna Jane Harrison |
| Anna Jean Ayres |
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| ant |
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| anthomyiid fly |
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| antithrombin |
| antiviral drug |
| antlion |
| Antonia Novello |
| anus |
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| ANZAC |
| ANZAC Day |
| Aphanomyces |
| aphid |
| apoptosis |
| appendicitis |
| appendix |
| appetite |
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| aqueous humour |
| arachnid |
| arbovirus |
| archaea |
| arenavirus |
| arm |
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| aromatherapy |
| aromatic compound |
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artemisinin |
| arteriosclerosis |
| artery |
| arthritis |
| arthropod |
| Arthur Martin Vineberg |
| Arthus phenomenon |
| artificial heart |
| artificial insemination |
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| ascocarp |
| Ascomycota |
| ascus |
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| Asian flu of 1957 |
| Asparagus |
| asparagus beetle |
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| Aspergillus |
| aspirin |
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| asthma |
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| astrocyte |
| atelectasis |
| atherosclerosis |
| athlete’s foot |
| atrophy |
| atropine |
| Atryn |
| attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder |
| audiology |
| audism |
| August Friedrich Leopold Weismann |
| Augustus D. Juilliard |
| auk |
| Aulus Cornelius Celsus |
| Austin Flint |
| autism |
| autism spectrum disorder |
| autopsy |
| avascular necrosis |
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avian malaria |
| Avicenna |
| Ayurveda |
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AZT |
| B cell |
| Babesia |
| babesiosis |
| Baby Bollinger |
| bacillus |
| back pain |
| back swimmer |
| bacteremia |
| bacteria |
| bacterial diseases |
| bacteriophage |
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Bagheera kiplingi |
| bagworm moth |
| Bainbridge reflex |
| baldness |
| baleen whale |
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Balfour Biological Laboratory |
| ballistospore |
| balloon fly |
| Barbara McClintock |
| bark beetle |
| bark-gnawing beetle |
| barotrauma |
| Barry J. Marshall |
| Barton Childs |
| Bartter syndrome |
| Baruch S. Blumberg |
| Baruj Benacerraf |
| base excision repair |
| base pair |
| basidiocarp |
| Basidiomycota |
| basidium |
| basophil |
| bat bug |
| battered woman syndrome |
| Battle of the Boyne |
| battlefield medicine |
| Battles of Lexington and Concord |
| BCG vaccine |
| bedbug |
| bee |
| beekeeping |
| beetle |
| behaviour genetics |
| Bei Shizhang |
| bejel |
| belladonna |
| Bengt Ingemar Samuelsson |
| Benjamin Rush |
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Benjamin S. Carson, Sr. |
| Benjamin Waterhouse |
| benzaldehyde |
| benzene |
| benzene hexachloride |
| benzodiazepine |
| Berlin blockade and airlift |
| Bernard Siegfried Albinus |
| Bernardo Alberto Houssay |
| Bert Sakmann |
| bess beetle |
| beta-aminoisobutyric acid excretion |
| Bian Qiao |
| biliary dyskinesia |
| billbug |
| binary fission |
| biochemistry |
| bioengineering |
| biofilm |
| bioinformatics |
| biological determinism |
| biomarker |
| biomechanics |
| biomonitoring |
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biophilia hypothesis |
| biopsy |
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Biosphere 2 |
| biotechnology |
| bipolar disorder |
| bird flu |
| bird louse |
| birth control |
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bisphenol A |
| biting midge |
| Black Death |
| black fly |
| black spot |
| blackwater fever |
| bladder cancer |
| blast injury |
| bleeding |
| blind spot |
| blindness |
| blister beetle |
| blood analysis |
| blood bank |
| blood cell formation |
| blood disease |
| blood doping |
| blood group |
| blood pressure |
| blow fly |
| blue butterfly |
| body mass index |
| Boeing Company |
| boil |
| Boletaceae |
| Boletales |
| bone marrow |
| bone marrow aspiration |
| bone marrow transplant |
| bone mineral density |
| book lung |
| borane |
| borderline personality disorder |
| borer beetle |
| bot fly |
| Botox |
| bovine spongiform encephalopathy |
| box-and-whisker plot |
| braconid |
| brain |
| brain cancer |
| brain death |
| brain scanning |
| branch and twig borer |
| breast cancer |
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Breast Cancer Awareness Month |
| breech birth |
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Brian K. Kobilka |
| bridge |
| Bright disease |
| bristletail |
| Broca area |
| bronchiectasis |
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bronchoscopy |
| Brooklyn Bridge |
| brown adipose tissue |
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Bruce A. Beutler |
| Bruce Ames |
| brucellosis spondylitis |
| brush-footed butterfly |
| bubonic plague |
| bulimia nervosa |
| bunyavirus |
| Burkitt lymphoma |
| burrower bug |
| butyl alcohol |
| butyric acid |
| byssinosis |
| cabbage looper |
| caddisfly |
| calcitonin |
| calcium deficiency |
| calicivirus |
| Callophyllis |
| callus |
| Camillo Golgi |
| cancellous bone |
| cancer |
| canine tooth |
| canker sore |
| cannabis |
| carbide |
| carbohydrate |
| carbon monoxide poisoning |
| carborane |
| carboxylic acid |
| carcinogen |
| cardiac catheterization |
| cardiac magnetic resonance imaging |
| cardiomyopathy |
| cardiopulmonary resuscitation |
| cardiovascular disease |
| caries |
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Carol W. Greider |
| carpal bone |
| carpenter bee |
| carpenter moth |
| carpet moth |
| carrion beetle |
| case-control study |
| casebearer |
| casebearing leaf beetle |
| caste |
| castration |
| cataplexy |
| cataract |
| catecholamine |
| caterpillar |
| Catherine II |
| catheterization |
| cave |
| celiac disease |
| cell |
| cell cycle |
| cellular respiration |
| cellulose |
| Centers for Disease Control and Prevention |
| centromere |
| cephalic disorder |
| cephalin-cholesterol flocculation |
| cerebellar ataxia |
| cerebral palsy |
| cervical cancer |
| cesarean section |
| chafer |
| Chagas disease |
| chalcid |
| character |
| Charaka-samhita |
| Charles H. Best |
| Charles-Édouard Brown-Séquard |
| chemical compound |
| chemokine |
| chemoreception |
| chewing louse |
| chigger |
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chikungunya fever |
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chikungunya virus |
| chilblain |
| child behaviour disorder |
| child mental health |
| child safety |
| childhood disintegrative disorder |
| chimera |
| Chinese wax |
| Chlamydia |
| chloramphenicol |
| chlorofluorocarbon |
| chloroform |
| chlorophenol |
| chlorophyll |
| chloropicrin |
| chloroplast |
| cholecystokinin |
| cholera |
| cholesterol |
| cholinergic drug |
| Christian René de Duve |
| Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard |
| Christmas |
| Christmas cactus |
| chromosomal disorder |
| chromosome |
| chromosome number |
| chronic fatigue syndrome |
| chronic obstructive pulmonary disease |
| chronic traumatic encephalopathy |
| Chytridiomycota |
| cicada |
| cicada-killer wasp |
| cilium |
| circadian rhythm |
| circulatory system |
| circus |
| citral |
| citronella oil |
| clavicle |
| clearwing moth |
| cleft lip |
| cleft palate |
| click beetle |
| Clifford Whittingham Beers |
| clinical trial |
| clitoris |
| clone |
| cloning |
| clostridial infection |
| clouded leopard |
| cluster analysis |
| cluster headache |
| cnidosporidian |
| coagulation |
| cobalt milkweed beetle |
| cobra |
| Cochin Jews |
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cochlear implant |
| cockroach |
| coefficient of determination |
| coenzyme |
| collinearity |
| coloboma |
| colony collapse disorder |
| coloration |
| colorectal cancer |
| colour |
| colour blindness |
| colour vision |
| colposcopy |
| comb-clawed beetle |
| common cold |
| community ecology |
| community-based rehabilitation |
| comorbidity |
| compact bone |
| complementary and alternative medicine |
| complementation test |
| complex humanitarian emergency |
| compressed air |
| computational biology |
| computed tomography |
| concussion |
| condom |
| cone |
| congenital adrenal hyperplasia |
| congenital disorder |
| congenital hip dislocation |
| congestive heart failure |
| conidium |
| connective tissue |
| consanguinity |
| conservation |
| Constitutional Convention |
| contact dermatitis |
| contact lens |
| continental drift |
| contraception |
| coordination compound |
| copper butterfly |
| coreid bug |
| cornea |
| coronary artery bypass |
| coronary heart disease |
| coronavirus |
| corpus callosum |
| cortex |
| corticotropin-releasing hormone |
| cortisol |
| coyote |
| crab spider |
| cresol |
| Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease |
| cri-du-chat syndrome |
| cricket |
| Crohn disease |
| croup |
| cryopreservation |
| cryptococcosis |
| crystal |
| cup fungus |
| Curt Jurgens |
| Cushing syndrome |
| cyanide poisoning |
| cystathioninuria |
| cysteine |
| cystic fibrosis |
| cystinosis |
| cytogenetics |
| cytokinesis |
| cytology |
| cytopathic effect |
| cytoplasm |
| cytoplasmic streaming |
| cytoskeleton |
| Dactylella |
| daily reference value |
| Dakin’s solution |
| damsel bug |
| damselfly |
| dance fly |
| darkling beetle |
| Darwinian medicine |
| David Baltimore |
| David Copperfield |
| David H. Levy |
| David Hunter Hubel |
| David Satcher |
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de-extinction |
| deaf-blindness |
| deafness on Martha’s Vineyard |
| death |
| deathwatch beetle |
| decompression sickness |
| deep brain stimulation |
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defibrillation |
| dehydration |
| deinstitutionalization |
| delayed puberty |
| delirium tremens |
| deme |
| dementia |
| dengue |
| dental auxiliary |
| dentistry |
| Denton A. Cooley |
| depression |
| dermatitis |
| dermatochalasis |
| dermatome |
| dermatome |
| dermestid beetle |
| detached retina |
| deuteromycetes |
| developmental disability |
| diabetes |
| diabetes insipidus |
| diabetes mellitus |
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diabetic nephropathy |
| diagnosis |
| Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders |
| diamondback moth |
| diaphragm |
| dichlorobenzene |
| Dick test |
| Diego blood group system |
| dietary fibre |
| dietary supplement |
| digestive nerve plexus |
| dilator muscle |
| dioxin |
| dipluran |
| dipteran |
| disability art |
| disability culture |
| disability management |
| disaccharide |
| disease |
| dissociative disorder |
| dizygotic twin |
| DNA |
| DNA fingerprinting |
| DNA repair |
| DNA sequencing |
| dobsonfly |
| Dollo’s law |
| Dolly |
| dolphin |
| dolphin |
| Dombrock blood group system |
| double vision |
| doula |
| Down syndrome |
| dragonfly |
| drug |
| drug abuse |
| drug resistance |
| drug use |
| ductus arteriosus |
| ductus deferens |
| Duffy blood group system |
| dung beetle |
| dung fly |
| Dutch elm disease |
| dwarfism |
| dye |
| dysarthria |
| e-cigarette |
| e-health |
| E. coli |
| E. Donnall Thomas |
| ear |
| ear bone |
| ear disease |
| Earl W. Sutherland, Jr. |
| early childhood intervention |
| earwig |
| eastern Hercules beetle |
| eating disorder |
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Ebola |
| Ebola hemorrhagic fever |
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|
Ebola outbreak of 2014 |
| echocardiography |
| echolocation |
| ectomorph |
| ectopic pregnancy |
| ectropion |
| edema |
| Edgar Douglas Adrian, 1st Baron Adrian of Cambridge |
| Edith Cresson |
| Edith Rebecca Saunders |
| Edmund Beecher Wilson |
| Edward B. Lewis |
| Edward Jenner |
| Edward Tyson |
| Edwin Gerhard Krebs |
| eflornithine |
| ejaculation |
| elbow injuries |
| electric circuit |
| electric wheelchair |
| electrocardiography |
| electroencephalography |
| electromyography |
| electronic health record |
| electroreception |
| Eli Sercarz |
| Elias Zerhouni |
| Élie Metchnikoff |
| Elizabeth Blackwell |
| Elizabeth Garrett Anderson |
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Elizabeth H. Blackburn |
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Elizabeth Kenny |
| elm bark beetle |
| Eloise R. Giblett |
| embalming |
| Emil von Behring |
| emphysema |
| empyema |
| encephalitis |
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ENCODE |
| Endamoeba |
| endocrinology |
| endometriosis |
| endomorph |
| endoplasmic reticulum |
| endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatoscopy |
| endoscopy |
| enkephalin |
| ensign wasp |
| Enterobacter |
| entomology |
| entropion |
| enuresis |
| environmental health |
| environmental medicine |
| environmental toxicology |
| enzyme analysis |
| eosinophil |
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ependymal cell |
| epidemic |
| epidemiology |
| epidermis |
| epididyme |
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epigenetics |
| epigenomics |
| epilepsy |
| epinephrine |
| epinephrine tolerance test |
| epithelioma |
| epitope |
| epoxide |
| Erasmus Darwin |
| erection |
| erector spinae |
| ergosterol |
| Ernest Armstrong McCulloch |
| Ernest Henry Starling |
| Erwin Neher |
| erythroblast |
| erythropoietin |
| esophageal cancer |
| esophagogastroduodenoscopy |
| esophagus |
| essential tremor |
| ester |
| estrogen |
| ethane |
| ether |
| ethyl acetoacetate |
| ethyl alcohol |
| ethyl chloride |
| ethylene |
| ethylene bromide |
| ethylene chloride |
| ethylene glycol |
| eubacterium |
| eugenics |
| eukaryote |
| Eurotiomycetes |
| evaporation |
| evidence-based medicine |
| evolution |
| Ewing tumour of bone |
| exophthalmos |
| exploratory surgery |
| extensor muscle |
| external auditory canal |
| extracellular fluid |
| extremophile |
| eye disease |
| eyeball |
| eyelid |
| fairy ring |
| false scorpion |
| familial hypercholesterolemia |
| farmer’s lung |
| fat |
| feather-winged beetle |
| fecal occult blood test |
| feeding behaviour |
| fermentation |
| fertility |
| fetus |
| fever |
| fibroblast |
| fibrocystic disease of the breast |
| fibromyalgia |
| fibrous dysplasia |
| Fig Tree microfossils |
| fight-or-flight response |
| Filippo Silvestri |
| filovirus |
| fire ant |
| firefly |
| fistula |
| flat bark beetle |
| flat bug |
| flavivirus |
| flea |
| flesh fly |
| Florence Nightingale |
| flour moth |
| flower bug |
| flower chafer |
| fluorescence in situ hybridization |
| fluoridation of water |
| fluoroquinolone |
| fly |
| focusing |
| food allergy |
| food chain |
| food desert |
| foodborne illness |
| foot-and-mouth disease |
| footman moth |
| forebrain |
| forensic medicine |
| forester moth |
| formaldehyde |
| formic acid |
| founder principle |
| fragile-X syndrome |
| frailty |
| Francesco Redi |
| Francis Bacon, Viscount Saint Alban, Baron Verulam |
| Francis Collins |
| François Jacob |
| Franƈoise Barré-Sinoussi |
| Frank Johannes Fenner |
| Frederick Chapman Robbins |
| Frederick Douglass |
| Frederick Sanger |
| Freon |
| Friedrich Gustav Jacob Henle |
| Frits Zernike |
| froghopper |
| Frostie |
| functional magnetic resonance imaging |
| fungus |
| fungus gnat |
| fungus weevil |
| funnel-web spider |
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|
G protein-coupled receptor |
| gait analysis |
| Galen of Pergamum |
| gall fly |
| gall wasp |
| Gardasil |
| garden spider |
| Gaspare Aselli |
| gasteromycetes |
| gastrectomy |
| gastric fluid analysis |
| gastric gland |
| gastric inhibitory polypeptide |
| gastrin |
| gastrocnemius muscle |
| Gaucher disease |
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|
gel electrophoresis |
| gelechiid moth |
| gene |
| gene doping |
| gene pool |
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|
gene therapy |
| generic drug |
| genetic counselling |
| genetic testing |
| genetically modified organism |
| genetics |
| Genographic Project |
| genomic imprinting |
| genomics |
| geometrid moth |
|
|
Georg W. Steller |
| George C. Williams |
| George Herbert Hitchings |
| George Richards Minot |
| germ theory |
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|
German E. coli outbreak of 2011 |
| Gertrude B. Elion |
| gestational diabetes mellitus |
| ghrelin |
| Giacomo Berengario da Carpi |
| Gianni Versace |
| giant cell |
| gibberellin |
| gigantism |
| Gilbert R. Spaulding |
| Gilman reagent |
| gingivitis |
| Giovanni Battista Morgagni |
| Giovanni Maria Lancisi |
| Girolamo Fracastoro |
| Giulio Bizzozero |
| gladiator bug |
| glass |
| glioma |
| glowworm |
| glucagon |
| glucocorticoid |
| glucose |
| glucose tolerance test |
| glycogen storage disease |
| glycogenesis |
| glycogenolysis |
| gnat |
| goitre |
| goitrogen |
| golden algae |
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|
Golgi apparatus |
| gonadotropin |
| gonadotropin-releasing hormone |
| gonorrhea |
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|
Gordon L. Woods |
| gossamer-winged butterfly |
| gout |
| graft-versus-host disease |
| Grand Prix racing |
| granulocyte |
| granulomatous thyroiditis |
| grasshopper |
| grassland |
| Graves disease |
| Great Plague of London |
| Gregor Mendel |
| Grignard reagent |
| ground beetle |
| ground pearl |
|
|
group selection |
| growth |
| growth factor |
| growth hormone |
| growth hormone-releasing hormone |
| Guatemala syphilis experiment |
| Guillaume-Benjamin-Amand Duchenne |
| guinea worm |
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|
guinea worm disease |
| guitar |
| Gulf War syndrome |
| gum |
| Günter Blobel |
| Guy de Chauliac |
| H. D. Deve Gowda |
| 2 receptor antagonist">H2 receptor antagonist |
| Hague Conventions |
| hairstreak |
| hairy fungus beetle |
| hallucinogen |
| halocarbon |
| halon |
| Hamilton Othanel Smith |
| Hans Selye |
| Hans Zinsser |
| Har Gobind Khorana |
| harlequin cabbage bug |
| Harold Varmus |
| Harpellales |
| harvester |
| Hashimoto disease |
| hashish |
| hawk moth |
| hay fever |
| health law |
| heart |
| heart attack |
| heart disease |
| heart transplant |
| heat transfer |
| Heimlich maneuver |
| HeLa cell |
| Helen Brooke Taussig |
| Helen Margaret Ranney |
| helicopter |
| Helminthosporium |
| hemagglutinin |
| hemochromatosis |
| hemocytoblast |
| hemoglobin |
| hemophilia |
| hemorrhage |
| hemothorax |
| hemp |
| Henri Dunant |
| Henrietta Lacks |
| Henry Knowles Beecher |
| hepadnavirus |
| hepatitis |
| herd immunity |
| heredity |
| heritability |
| hermaphroditism |
| Hernando de Soto |
| herpes simplex |
| herpes zoster |
| herpesvirus |
| Hessian fly |
| heterocyclic compound |
| heteropteran |
| high-risk pregnancy |
| hindbrain |
| hip fracture |
| hippocampus |
| Hippocrates |
| Hippocratic oath |
| Hirsch Jacobs |
| histamine |
| hister beetle |
| history of medicine |
| history of the deaf |
| HIV |
| Hodgkin lymphoma |
| Holliday junction |
| home care |
| homeotic gene |
| homopteran |
| honeybee |
| Hong Kong flu of 1968 |
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|
horizontal gene transfer |
| hormone |
| hormone replacement therapy |
| horntail |
| horseshoe crab |
| hospital |
| hot flash |
| hot spring |
| hover fly |
| Howard Walter Florey, Baron Florey |
| Hua Tuo |
| human aging |
| human behaviour |
| human body |
| human cardiovascular system |
| human development |
| human digestive system |
| human disease |
| human endocrine system |
| human eye |
| human genome |
| Human Genome Project |
| human louse |
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|
human microbiome |
| human muscle system |
| human nervous system |
| human nutrition |
| human papillomavirus |
| human respiratory system |
| human sensory reception |
| human skeletal system |
| human skin |
| human skin disease |
| human-machine interface |
| humpbacked fly |
| Huntington disease |
| Hüseyin Rahmi Gürpinar |
| hydrate |
| hydride |
| hydrocarbon |
| hydrocephalus |
| hydrofluorocarbon |
| hydrogenosome |
| hymenium |
| hymenomycetes |
| hymenopteran |
| hyperaldosteronism |
| hyperammonemia |
| hypercalcitoninemia |
| hyperglycemia |
| hyperopia |
| hyperparathyroidism |
| hypertension |
| hyperthelia |
| hyperthyroidism |
| hypertrichosis |
| hyperventilation |
| Hyphochytriomycota |
| hypoaldosteronism |
| hypoglycemia |
| hypogonadism |
| hypolipidemic drug |
| hypoparathyroidism |
| hypophosphatasia |
| hypopituitarism |
| Hyposmocoma |
| hypothalamus |
| hypothermia |
| hypothyroidism |
| hypoxia |
| hystero-epilepsy |
| ice bug |
| ichneumon |
| Ignaz Philipp Semmelweis |
| Ii blood group system |
| ileum |
| illness anxiety disorder |
|
|
imatinib |
| immune system |
| immune system disorder |
| immunodeficiency |
| immunologic blood test |
| immunosuppressant |
| immunosuppression |
| impact injury |
| in vitro fertilization |
| inborn error of metabolism |
| incidence |
|
|
inclusive fitness |
| incontinence |
| industrial truck |
| infant and toddler development |
| infant and toddler health |
| infant perception |
| infant stimulation program |
| infectious disease |
| infertility |
| inflammation |
| inflammatory bowel disease |
| influenza |
| influenza A H1N1 |
|
|
influenza pandemic (H1N1) of 2009 |
| influenza pandemic of 1918-19 |
| inhibin |
| inky cap |
| insect |
| insect bite and sting |
| insecticide |
| instinct |
| insulin |
| insulin-like growth factor |
| intensive care unit |
| International Classification of Diseases |
|
|
International HapMap Project |
|
|
International Nurses Day |
| International Society of Blood Transfusion |
| intersex |
| inulin clearance |
| iodine deficiency |
| ion channel |
| ionizing radiation injury |
| iridovirus |
| iris |
| Irish moss |
| islets of Langerhans |
| isoprenoid |
| isopropyl alcohol |
| J. Craig Venter |
| J. M. Barrie |
| J. Michael Bishop |
| J. Robin Warren |
|
|
Jack W. Szostak |
| Jacob of Edessa |
| Jacques Benveniste |
| Jacques Cousteau |
| Jacques Monod |
| Jaime Huguet |
| James Bryan Herrick |
| James D. Hardy |
| James Dewey Watson |
|
|
James E. Rothman |
| James Lind |
| Jan Evangelista Purkinje |
| Jan van Goyen |
| Jean Antoine Villemin |
| Jean Dausset |
| Jean Ingelow |
|
|
Jean Nicot |
| jellyfish |
| Jerome Phillip Horwitz |
| Jerusalem cricket |
| jet lag |
| Jim Jones |
| Jim Jordan; and Marian Jordan |
| Johann Friedrich Blumenbach |
| Johann Friedrich Miescher |
| Johann Peter Frank |
| Johannes Peter Müller |
| John Boyd Orr, Baron Boyd-Orr of Brechin Mearns |
| John Brown |
| John Bulwer |
| John Caius |
| John Elliotson |
| John Fothergill |
| John Gerard |
| John Hughlings Jackson |
| John Hunter |
| John Jacob Abel |
| John Morgan |
| John Muir |
| John Snow |
| John Turberville Needham |
| Jokichi Takamine |
| Jonas Edward Salk |
| Joseph E. Murray |
| Joseph Erlanger |
| Joseph L. Goldstein |
| Joseph Lister, Baron Lister of Lyme Regis |
| Joseph Nicolas Nicollet |
| jugular vein |
| Jules Bordet |
|
|
Jules Hoffmann |
| Julius Wagner-Jauregg |
| jumping spider |
| K–T extinction |
| Kaburagi Kiyokata |
| Kaposi sarcoma |
|
|
Karl Deisseroth |
| Karl, Freiherr von Vogelsang |
| Karl Landsteiner |
|
|
Kate Atkinson |
| katydid |
| Kell blood group system |
| keratitis |
| kermes |
| ketamine |
| ketene |
| ketone |
| ketosis |
| Kidd blood group system |
| kidney failure |
| kidney function test |
| kidney stone |
| kidney transplant |
| kinase |
| kinesiology |
| Klebsiella |
| Klinefelter syndrome |
| knee injuries |
| Laboulbeniales |
| lace bug |
| laceration |
| lacewing |
| lactase |
| lactation |
| lacteal |
| Lactobacillus |
| lactone |
| ladybug |
| laparoscopy |
| laryngectomy |
| laser |
| LASIK |
| Laura Dewey Bridgman |
| Lawrence B. Slobodkin |
| laxative |
| Lazzaro Spallanzani |
| lead poisoning |
| leaf |
| leaf beetle |
| leaf insect |
| leaf miner |
| leaf-cutter bee |
| leaf-rolling grasshopper |
| leaf-rolling weevil |
| leafcutter ant |
| leafhopper |
| Legionnaire disease |
| Leigh Van Valen |
| leishmania |
| lens |
| lens |
| lens dislocation |
| Leon Eisenberg |
| Leon Jaworski |
| Leonard Solomon Lerman |
| Leopold Auenbrugger von Auenbrugg |
| lepidopteran |
| leprosy |
| letrozole |
| leukopenia |
| leukoplakia |
| leukorrhea |
| levallorphan |
| levonorgestrel |
| Lewis blood group system |
| lichen |
| life expectancy |
| life span |
| lighthouse |
| Likert Scale |
| lincosamide |
| lips |
| listeriosis |
| liver cancer |
| liver function test |
| living will |
| lizard beetle |
| Lloyd John Old |
| lobotomy |
| locust |
| logging |
| long-horned beetle |
| long-horned grasshopper |
| long-legged fly |
| loop of Henle |
| Lorenzo Bellini |
| Louis J. Ignarro |
| Louis Pasteur |
| Louise Brown |
| louse |
| Luc Montagnier |
| lumbar puncture |
| lung |
| lung cancer |
|
|
lung ventilation/perfusion scan |
| lungworm |
| lupus erythematosus |
| Lutheran blood group system |
| Lycoperdaceae |
| lygaeid bug |
| Lyme disease |
| lymph node |
| lymphangitis |
| lymphatic system |
| lymphoblast |
| lymphocyte |
| lymphocytic choriomeningitis |
| lymphoma |
| Lynn Margulis |
| lynx spider |
| lysogeny |
| lysosome |
| macrobiotics |
| macrolide |
| macula lutea |
| macular degeneration |
| magnetic resonance imaging |
| magnetic resonance spectroscopy |
| magnetoencephalography |
| malabsorption test |
| malaria |
| mammary gland |
| mammography |
| Man o’ War |
| Manfred J. Sakel |
| mangabey |
| mantid |
| mantispid |
| marasmus |
| marble bone disease |
| Marcello Malpighi |
| March fly |
| Margaret Chan |
| Margaret Mead |
|
|
Margaret Murie |
| Maria Sibylla Merian |
| Marie Curie |
| Marie-Jean-Pierre Flourens |
| marijuana |
| Marjorie Grene |
| marsh fly |
| Marshall Warren Nirenberg |
| Martinus W. Beijerinck |
| maternal imagination |
| Mathias Jacob Schleiden |
| Mathilde Krim |
| Matteo Realdo Colombo |
|
|
Maud Leonora Menten |
| mayfly |
| Mayo family |
| McDonald’s Corporation |
| meadow grasshopper |
| mealybug |
| measuring worm |
| mediastinal emphysema |
|
|
mediastinoscopy |
| medical and vocational rehabilitation |
| medical cannabis |
| Medical Committee for Human Rights |
|
|
medical tourism |
| medicine |
| medullary thyroid carcinoma |
| Meinrad Inglin |
| melamine |
| melanocyte |
| melanocyte-stimulating hormone |
| melanoma |
| melarsoprol |
| melatonin |
| membrane |
| meme |
| meningitis |
| menopause |
| mental disorder |
| menthol |
| MERS |
| mesentery |
| mesomorph |
| mesothelioma |
| messenger RNA |
| metabolic bone disease |
| metabolic disease |
| metabolic syndrome |
| metabolism |
| metachromatic leukodystrophy |
| metallic wood-boring beetle |
| metalmark |
| metastasis |
| methane |
|
|
methicillin |
| methyl chloride |
| Michael DeBakey |
| Michael S. Brown |
| microglia |
| microsporidian |
| Microtatobiotes |
| microtubule |
| midbrain |
| midge |
| midwifery |
| migraine |
| mildew |
| Mildred Cohn |
| milkweed butterfly |
| millipede |
| mining bee |
| mirror neuron |
| miscarriage |
| mite |
|
|
mitochondrion |
| mitosis |
| MNSs blood group system |
| mold |
| mole cricket |
| molecular biology |
| monarch butterfly |
| moneran |
| monkey puzzle tree |
| monomer |
| mononucleosis |
| Monro family |
| moose |
| morpho |
| Moser, Edvard I. |
| Moser, May-Britt |
| mosquito |
| moth fly |
| mouth |
|
|
MRSA |
| mucosal protective agent |
| mucous membrane |
| Mukhtar Ahmad Ansari |
| multicellular organism |
| multiple birth |
| multiple endocrine neoplasia |
| multiple myeloma |
| multiple sclerosis |
| Muriel Wheldale Onslow |
| muscle disease |
| mushroom |
| mutation |
| mutation theory |
| Mycobacterium |
| mycology |
| myelin |
| myelocyte |
| myocardial perfusion imaging |
| myopia |
| myotonia |
| myriapod |
| myxedema |
| nanoparticle |
| narcolepsy |
| narcotic |
| nasopharyngolaryngoscopy |
|
|
Nathan Wolfe |
| neck |
| neonatal hypothyroidism |
| nephrosclerosis |
| nephrotic syndrome |
| nervous system |
| net-winged beetle |
| neural engineering |
| neural stem cell |
| neuraminidase |
| neuroblastoma |
| neuroglia |
| neuron |
| neuropathy |
| neuroplasticity |
| neuropsychiatry |
| neuropteran |
| neutrophil |
| Newton’s laws of motion |
| Nicolas C. Paulescu |
| night blindness |
| Nitophyllum |
| nitride |
| nitrofuran |
| nitrogen-fixing bacteria |
|
|
Noctiluca |
| node of Ranvier |
| Norman Mailer |
| normoblast |
| Nosema |
| NSAID |
| nuclear magnetic resonance |
|
|
nuclear transfer |
| nucleic acid |
| numbat |
| Nunnally Johnson |
| nursery-web spider |
| nursing |
| nursing home |
| nutraceutical |
| nutrition |
| nutritional disease |
| nystagmus |
| oak |
| obesity |
| obstetric fistula |
| obstetrics |
| occupational disease |
| occupational therapy |
| Odonata |
| oedemerid beetle |
| oidium |
| O’Keefe, John |
| Old Faithful |
| olefin |
| olethreutid moth |
| olfactory bulb |
| olfactory receptor |
| oligodendrocyte |
| oligomenorrhea |
| onchocerciasis |
| oncogene |
| one gene–one enzyme hypothesis |
| Oomycota |
| ophthalmoplegia |
| ophthalmoscope |
| opium |
| optic ataxia |
| optic atrophy |
| optic nerve |
| optic neuritis |
| oral and maxillofacial surgery |
| oral cancer |
| oral contraceptive |
| orange-tip butterfly |
| orb weaver |
| organ donation |
| organelle |
| organic compound |
| organohalogen compound |
| organometallic compound |
| organosulfur compound |
| orotic aciduria |
| orthomyxovirus |
| orthopedics |
| orthopteran |
| Oscillatoria |
| oseltamivir |
| osteoarthritis |
| osteogenesis imperfecta |
| osteon |
| osteoporosis |
| otitis media |
| Otto Perl |
| Our Mutual Friend |
| ovarian cancer |
| ovary |
| overhydration |
| overweight |
| ovulation |
| owlfly |
| oxide |
| oxyacid |
| oxycodone |
| oxygen therapy |
| oxytocin |
| oystershell scale |
| P blood group system |
| pacemaker |
| padam |
| Paget disease of bone |
| pain |
| painted lady |
| palliative care |
| palpation |
| pancreas |
| pancreatic cancer |
| pancreatic polypeptide |
|
|
pandemic |
| panic attack |
| panic disorder |
| Pap smear |
| papain |
| paper wasp |
| papillomavirus |
| papovavirus |
| Paracelsus |
| paramyxovirus |
| parathormone |
| parathyroid adenoma |
| parathyroid gland |
| Parkinson disease |
| parkinsonism |
| parturition |
| parvovirus |
| Patrick Steptoe |
| Paul Berg |
| Paul Charles Zamecnik |
| Paul Mead Doty |
| pectus excavatum |
| Pedanius Dioscorides |
| Pediastrum |
| pedophilia |
| Pelagophycus |
| pelvic girdle |
| penicillin |
| Penicillium |
| penis |
| peppered moth |
| pepsin |
| peptide |
| perceptual learning |
| pericarditis |
| Peridinium |
| periodontics |
| periodontitis |
| peroxisome |
| pervasive developmental disorder |
| pervasive developmental disorder not otherwise specified |
| pesticide |
| phagocyte |
| phagocytosis |
| phantom limb syndrome |
| pharmaceutical industry |
|
|
pharming |
| phase |
| phenol |
| phenylketonuria |
| pheochromocytoma |
| Philip Showalter Hench |
| Phillip A. Sharp |
| philosophy of science |
| Phineas Gage |
| phosphide |
| phospholipid |
| photoreception |
| photorefractive keratectomy |
| phrenology |
| Phycomycetes |
| physical activity |
| physical medicine and rehabilitation |
| physical therapy |
| phytoflagellate |
| phytotherapy |
| pickwickian syndrome |
| picture-winged fly |
| Pierre-André Latreille |
| pill bug |
| pineal gland |
| pineal tumour |
| Pinetti |
| pinguecula |
| pinocytosis |
| pituitary gland |
| pituitary tumour |
| pixie |
| placebo |
| placebo effect |
| plague |
| plankton |
| plant |
| plant bug |
| plant disease |
| plant hopper |
| plaque |
| plasma cell |
| plasmodesma |
| Plasmodiophoromycota |
| plasmodium |
| Plasmodium |
| plastic surgery |
| pleasing fungus beetle |
| pleura |
| pleural effusion |
| pleurisy |
| pleurodynia |
| plume moth |
| Plummer disease |
| pneumoconiosis |
| pneumoencephalography |
| pneumonia |
| pneumothorax |
| point mutation |
| poison |
| polio |
| polio vaccine |
| polychlorinated biphenyl |
| polycythemia |
| polyglandular autoimmune syndrome |
| polymer |
| polymerization |
| polymyxin |
| polyomavirus |
| Polyporales |
| polysaccharide |
| population ecology |
| population pyramid |
| porphyrin |
| positron emission tomography |
| post-traumatic stress disorder |
| postmature birth |
| powderpost beetle |
| poxvirus |
| precocious puberty |
| preconception testing |
| predaceous diving beetle |
| preeclampsia |
| pregnancy |
| pregnancy test |
| premature birth |
|
|
prenatal development |
| prenatal testing |
| presbyopia |
| prevalence |
| primitive weevil |
| progeria |
| progesterone |
| prokaryote |
| prolactin |
| ProMED-mail |
| prominent moth |
| proprioception |
| propyl alcohol |
| prostaglandin |
| prostate cancer |
| prosthesis |
| protease inhibitor |
| protein-bound iodine test |
| proteomyxid |
| prothrombin |
| protist |
| proton pump inhibitor |
| protozoal disease |
| protozoan |
| proturan |
| Prozac |
| Przewalski’s horse |
| pseudohermaphroditism |
| psilocin |
| psittacosis |
| psocid |
| psoriasis |
| psychiatry |
| psychosis |
| pterygium |
| ptosis |
| puberty |
| pubic louse |
| public health |
| public health dentistry |
| public house |
| puerperal fever |
| puffer |
| pulmonary alveolar proteinosis |
| pulmonary alveolus |
| pulmonary circulation |
| pulmonary fibrosis |
| pulmonary function test |
| pupa |
| pupil |
| pure culture |
| Purkinje cell |
| pustule |
| pygmy grasshopper |
| pyralid moth |
| Pythium |
| quadriceps femoris muscle |
| quinsy |
| quorum sensing |
| raccoon dog |
| radial keratotomy |
| radiation |
| radiation therapy |
| Ralph F. Hirschmann |
|
|
Ralph M. Steinman |
|
|
Randy W. Schekman |
| rapamycin |
| raspy cricket |
| razor-billed auk |
| receptive field |
| receptor |
| recombinant DNA technology |
| red blood cell |
| Red Deer |
|
|
redback |
| refraction |
| regal moth |
| regenerative medicine |
| rehabilitation psychology |
| rehabilitation robot |
| Reinier de Graaf |
| renal cell carcinoma |
| renal lobe |
| renal osteodystrophy |
| renal system disease |
| Renato Dulbecco |
|
|
René-Théophile-Hyacinthe Laënnec |
| renin-angiotensin system |
| repetitive strain injury |
| reproductive system disease |
| respiratory disease |
| respiratory distress syndrome of newborns |
| respiratory system |
| respiratory therapy |
| restless legs syndrome |
| reticulocyte |
| reticuloendothelial system |
| retina |
| retinitis pigmentosa |
| retinopathy of prematurity |
| retrovirus |
| Rett syndrome |
| reverse transcriptase |
| rhabdom |
| rheumatism |
| rhinoceros beetle |
| rhinophyma |
| rhizoid |
| rhizomorph |
| ribosomal RNA |
| ribosome |
| rice bacterial blight |
| Richard Bright |
| Richard Leakey |
| ricin |
| rickets |
| rickettsia |
| Riedel thyroiditis |
| rift valley |
| Riley-Day syndrome |
| rimantadine |
| rinderpest |
| Ringer’s solution |
| Ringling Brothers |
| Rita Levi-Montalcini |
|
|
RNA interference |
| robber fly |
| Robert Adams |
| Robert Edwards |
| Robert F. Furchgott |
|
|
Robert J. Lefkowitz |
| Robert P. Lanza |
| Rocky Mountain spotted fever |
| rod |
| roentgenogram |
| Roger Charles Louis Guillemin |
| Rolf M. Zinkernagel |
| Rosalyn S. Yalow |
| rose |
| rove beetle |
| Rudolf Virchow |
| rust fly |
| sac spider |
| saccade |
| Saccharomyces |
| safe sex |
| salicylic acid |
| salivary gland |
| Samuel Gridley Howe |
| Samuel Huntington |
| San Jose scale |
| sand wasp |
|
|
Sanjay Gupta |
| sap beetle |
| sarcoma |
| SARS |
| saturniid moth |
| satyr butterfly |
| sawfly |
| scale insect |
| scarab beetle |
| Schick test |
| schistosomiasis |
| schizoaffective disorder |
| schizophrenia |
| Schwann cell |
|
|
scientific hypothesis |
| scientific method |
|
|
scientific modeling |
| scleritis |
| scorpion |
| scrotum |
| scurfy scale |
| sea squirt |
| seasonal affective disorder |
| sebaceous gland |
| second messenger |
| secretin |
| secretor system |
| sedative-hypnotic drug |
| seed beetle |
| Seigneur de Blaye Jaufré Rudel |
| Selman Abraham Waksman |
| semen analysis |
| Sendai virus |
| senses |
| sepsis |
| septicemia |
| sericulture |
| serological test |
| serum albumin |
| Sewall Wright |
| sex |
| sex determination |
| sex-controlled character |
| sex-limited character |
| sex-linked character |
| sexual differentiation |
| sexually transmitted disease |
| shadow biosphere |
| Sheehan syndrome |
| sheet-web weaver |
| shelf fungus |
| shield-backed katydid |
|
|
Shinya Yamanaka |
| shore fly |
| short-horned grasshopper |
| sickle cell anemia |
| Siddha medicine |
| Sidney Altman |
| sifaka |
| sigmoid colon |
| sigmoidoscopy |
| silicone breast implant |
| silk spider |
| silken fungus beetle |
| silkworm moth |
| single nucleotide polymorphism |
| single photon emission computed tomography |
| Sir Alan Hodgkin |
| Sir Alexander Fleming |
| Sir Almroth Edward Wright |
| Sir Andrew Fielding Huxley |
| Sir Benjamin Collins Brodie, 1st Baronet |
| Sir Bernard Katz |
| Sir Charles Bell |
| Sir Edwin Chadwick |
| Sir Ernst Boris Chain |
| Sir Frederick Gowland Hopkins |
| Sir Frederick Grant Banting |
| Sir Hans Sloane, Baronet |
| Sir Henry Dale |
|
|
Sir Ian Wilmut |
| Sir James Black |
| Sir James Paget, 1st Baronet |
|
|
Sir John Bertrand Gurdon |
| Sir John Pringle, 1st Baronet |
| Sir John Robert Vane |
| Sir John Simon |
| Sir Michael Foster |
| Sir Paul M. Nurse |
|
|
Sir Percivall Pott |
|
|
Sir Richard Leslie Taylor |
| Sir Ronald Ross |
| Sir Thomas Clifford Allbutt |
| Sir Thomas Lauder Brunton, 1st Baronet |
| Sir William Bowman, 1st Baronet |
| Sir William Osler, Baronet |
| Sir William Withey Gull, 1st Baronet |
|
|
SIV |
| skin beetle |
| skin cancer |
| skin squeeze |
| skipper |
| skipper |
| sleep |
| sleep apnea |
| sleeping sickness |
| sleepwalking |
| slug caterpillar moth |
| small intestine |
| Smithsonian American Art Museum |
| smoking |
| snakefly |
| snakeroot poisoning |
| snipe fly |
| snoring |
| snuff |
| social insect |
| sodium-potassium pump |
| solar tracker |
| solar-powered desalination unit |
| somatic cell nuclear transfer |
| somatic mutation |
| somatostatin |
| songbird |
| Sordariomycetes |
| sore throat |
| sound reception |
| sow bug |
| speech disorder |
| speech therapy |
| sperm |
| sphincter muscle |
| spider |
| spinal cord injury |
| spinal nerve |
| spleen |
| split-brain syndrome |
| spongillafly |
| sports medicine |
| springtail |
| stable fly |
| stag beetle |
| stalk-eyed fly |
| Stanley B. Prusiner |
| Stanley Cohen |
| Staphylococcus |
| starch |
| starvation |
| statin |
| stearic acid |
| steel |
| Stein-Leventhal syndrome |
| stem cell |
| Stephen W. Hawking |
| stereotaxic surgery |
| sterilization |
| steroid |
| stiletto fly |
| stilt bug |
| stinkbug |
| stinkhorn |
| stomach cancer |
| stonefly |
| strabismus |
| strepsipteran |
| stress |
| stress fracture |
| striated muscle |
| stroke |
| stroma |
| stuttering |
| styrene |
| subcutaneous emphysema |
| sucking louse |
| suckling |
| sulfa drug |
| sulfhemoglobinemia |
| sulfide |
| sulfonic acid |
| sulfur butterfly |
| sunburn |
| sunspider |
| surface tension |
| surgeon general of the United States |
| surgery |
| Susan L. Lindquist |
| Sushruta |
| Svyatoslav Nikolayevich Fyodorov |
| swallowtail butterfly |
| sweating sickness |
| swift |
|
|
swine flu |
| Sylviidae |
| symphylan |
| syndrome of inappropriate antidiuretic hormone |
| synesthesia |
| synthetic biology |
| syphilis test |
| T cell |
| tachinid fly |
| tailless whip scorpion |
| tamoxifen |
| Tanzania |
| tarantula |
| tartaric acid |
| Tasmanian devil |
| taste bud |
| tautomerism |
| tavern |
| tear duct |
| Teepu Siddique |
| telemedicine |
| teliospore |
| telomere |
| telosporidian |
| tent caterpillar moth |
| termite |
| testicular cancer |
| testis |
| testosterone |
| tetracycline |
| thalamus |
| thalassemia |
| thalidomide |
| The Mystery of Edwin Drood |
| Theobald Smith |
| Theodor Billroth |
| Theodor Schwann |
| therapeutics |
| thermal energy |
| Thermoplasma |
|
|
thermoreception |
| thick-headed fly |
|
|
Thomas C. Südhof |
| Thomas Chalmers Peebles |
| Thomas Eisner |
| Thomas Guy |
| Thomas Henry Huxley |
| Thomas Holloway |
| Thomas Linacre |
| Thomas Say |
|
|
Thomas Steitz |
|
|
thoracentesis |
| thoracic cavity |
| thoracic duct |
| thread-waisted wasp |
| thrips |
| thrombocytopenia |
| thymol turbidity |
| thyroid function test |
| thyroid gland |
| thyroid tumour |
| thyroiditis |
| thyrotropin |
| thyrotropin-releasing hormone |
| tick |
| tiger beetle |
| tiger moth |
| tineid moth |
| tinnitus |
| tissue |
| tissue culture |
|
|
tissue engineering |
| toad bug |
| toadstool |
| togavirus |
| Tomio Tada |
| Tonegawa Susumu |
| tongue |
| tonsil |
| tooth |
| tooth germ |
| Torbjörn Oskar Caspersson |
| Torsten Nils Wiesel |
| Tourette syndrome |
| toxicological examination |
| toxicology test |
| toxoplasmosis |
| trachea |
| traditional Chinese medicine |
| tranquilizer |
|
|
trans fat |
| transcranial magnetic stimulation |
| transcription |
| transcription factor |
| transfection |
| transfer factor |
| transfer RNA |
|
|
transient receptor potential channel |
| translation |
| translational medicine |
| transplant |
| transposon |
| traumatic brain injury |
| treehopper |
| triage |
| trichloroethane |
| trichloroethylene |
| trichogrammatid |
| trichomoniasis |
| Trichophyton |
| triglyceride |
| tropical disease |
| truffle |
| trypanosome |
| tsetse fly |
| tsunami |
| tuberculosis |
| tumbling flower beetle |
| tumour |
| tumour suppressor gene |
| tunicate |
| Turin |
| Turner syndrome |
| tussock moth |
| tympanic membrane |
| Typhoid Mary |
| tyrosine |
| ulcer |
| ultimobranchial gland |
| ultrasound |
| Unani medicine |
| unique-headed bug |
| urethra |
| Uriah Heep |
| urinary bladder |
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urinary tract infection |
| urinary tract obstruction |
| urine |
| uroscopy |
| uterine cancer |
| uterine cervix |
| uterine fibroid |
| uveitis |
| vacuole |
| vagina |
| vagus nerve |
| vasectomy |
| vasoactive intestinal peptide |
| vasopressin |
| vein |
| velvet ant |
| velvet water bug |
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Venkatraman Ramakrishnan |
| vertebral artery |
| vestibulo-ocular reflex |
| veterinary medicine |
| viatical settlement |
| Vincent gingivitis |
| vinegar fly |
| vinyl chloride |
| vinyl fluoride |
| viral disease |
| viral hemorrhagic fever |
| virus |
| visual field defect |
| vital sign |
| vitamin |
| vitamin B complex |
| vitamin D |
| vitamin K |
| vivisection |
|
|
Vladimir Georgievich Sorokin |
| von Willebrand factor |
| vulva |
| walkingstick |
|
|
Walter Jackson Freeman II |
| Walter Rudolf Hess |
| wandering spider |
| Wang Shuhe |
| warble fly |
| wasp |
| water |
| water boatman |
| water lily |
| water mold |
| water scavenger beetle |
| water spider |
| water strider |
| webspinner |
| weevil |
| Wernicke area |
| West Nile virus disease |
| wheelchair |
| Whillans Ice Stream |
| whip scorpion |
| whirligig beetle |
| white blood cell |
| white butterfly |
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|
white nose syndrome |
| whitefly |
| whole genome sequencing |
| whooping cough |
| Willem Einthoven |
| William Bateson |
| William Cheselden |
| William Crawford Gorgas |
| William Cullen |
| William George Horner |
| William Harvey |
| William Herman Prusoff |
| William Hunter |
| William Stewart Halsted |
| William Stokes |
| William Withering |
| Wilson disease |
| window fly |
| window-winged moth |
| wood warbler |
| wood wasp |
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World AIDS Day |
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World Cancer Day |
| World Health Organization |
| World Heart Day |
|
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World Malaria Day |
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World TB Day |
| Wylie Walker Vale, Jr. |
| Xg blood group system |
| yeast |
| yellow fever |
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Yersinia |
| Yt blood group system |
|
|
Yves Béhar |
| Zabdiel Boylston |
| zanamivir |
| zebra swallowtail butterfly |
| Zhang Zhongjing |
| zoonotic disease |
| zorapteran |
| zygote |
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