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| Familial Hypercholesterolemia |
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| A metabolic disorder that is caused by defective or absent receptors for LDL (low density lipoproteins) on cell surfaces, that is marked by an increase in blood plasma LDL and by an accumulation of LDL in the body resulting in an increased risk of heart attack and coronary heart disease, and that is inherited as an autosomal dominant trait. |
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| A long carbon chain with the end carbon double bonded to oxygen and to a hydroxyl (OH) to form a carboxylic acid. Fatty acids vary in length and in the number and location of double bonds; these fatty acids linked to a glycerol molecule form fat. |
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| The return to the input of a part of the output in a machine, system, or process (as for producing changes in an electronic circuit that improve performance or in an automatic control device that provide self-corrective action). |
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| A branch of mechanics dealing with the properties of liquids and gases. |
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| The application of seintific knowledge to questions of civil and criminal law. |
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| Any of a group of related actions contributing to a larger action; especially the normal and specific contriution of a bodily part to the economy of a living organism. |
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