| familial adenomatous polyposis |
(fa-mil-e-uhl ad-ehn-NO-mah-tus poly-po-sis ): an hereditary condition that is a risk factor for colorectal cancer. People with this syndrome develop polyps in the colon and rectum. Often these polyps become cancerous. Abbreviated FAP.
Ãâó: www.cancer.org/docroot/GRY/GRY_0.asp
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| familial |
a family characteristic.
Ãâó: www.ccsg.org.nz/newsletters/ccsgnews/glossary.htm
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| family |
The family name as given by the person making the identification or from a reliable reference.
Ãâó: www.fs.fed.us/pnw/bmnri/hussi5.html
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| familial |
a clustering of disease in a family, with no specific inheritance pattern, but more cases than chance alone would predict.
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| famine |
This famine was worsened by the restoration of guilds in Piedmont and the establishment of interior and exterior tariffs. Italy also suffered because its people, especially in the south, depended heavily on subsistence agriculture, and so, when crops failed, had little money to purchase from abroad or supplement their harvest. An outbreak of typhus swept through Italy during the famine. 3
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