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• macroscopical lesions
  7 January 2005

  gross lesions, macroscopic lesions

• medical semiology
  11 July 2003

  Definition: Medical semiology is the science of signs in medicine. It is a part of medical semiotics.
  Types
  molecular semiology
  biological semiology
  morphological semiology macroscopical semiology macroscopical lesions macroscopical lesional syndromes microscopical semiology microscopical lesions microscopical lesional syndromes
  functional semiology
  clinical semiology
  See also
  concepts in (...)

• pathology
  11 July 2003
• diseases
  16 July 2003

  human disease
  WP
  Definition: A disease is a particular abnormal condition (anomaly - anomalies ), a disorder of a structure or function , that affects part or all of an organism.
  The study of diseases is pathology. The classification of diseases is nosology. The study of the causes of diseases is etiology. The study of the mechanisms of diseases is physiopathology.
  Syndromes
  Diseases differ from syndromes.
  Causes
  The study of the causes of diseases forms the etiology.
  Mechanisms (...)

• biostructures
  1 June 2004

  biological structures; living structures
  Definition : In biology, structures exist at all levels of biological organization , ranging hierarchically from the atomic and molecular to the cell , tissue , organ , organism , population and ecosystem level.
  Usually, a higher-level structure is composed of multiple copies of a lower-level structure.
  The structural biology studies the biomolecular structure of macromolecules, particularly proteins and nucleic acids.
  The function of these (...)

• eugenics
  28 May 2004

  Eugenics involves using principles of genetics to "improve" humankind. Though presently out of favor, the idea that this was a good thing was fairly universally accepted throughout the early part of this century.
  References
  Richards M. Timeline: A nineteenth-century experiment in human selective breeding. Nat Rev Genet. 2004 Jun;5(6):475-9. PMID: #15154000#

• anatomoclinical correlation
  11 July 2003
• allelic diseases
  6 October 2003

  allelic disorders

• syndromes
  10 February 2005

  syndrome
  Definition: A syndrome could be a set of symptoms and clinical signs ( clinical syndromes ), a set of lesions ( lesional syndromes ), a set of malformations ( malformative syndromes ) or a set of biological anomalies ( biological syndromes ).
  Syndromes and Nosology
  One of the main problems with nosologies is that diseases often cannot be defined and classified clearly especially when pathogenesis or causality is not known. So, diagnostic terms often are in fact only symptoms or (...)

• epistasis
  20 September 2004

  References
  Carlborg O, Haley CS. Epistasis: too often neglected in complex trait studies? Nat Rev Genet. 2004 Aug;5(8):618-25. PMID: #15266344#
  Cordell HJ. Epistasis: what it means, what it doesn’t mean, and statistical methods to detect it in humans. Hum Mol Genet. 2002 Oct 1;11(20):2463-8. PMID: #12351582#

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