| second messenger |
Molecules that are synthesized in response to hormones binding to their receptors. Second messengers initiate the biological action of the hormone.
Ãâó: www.aboutzonediet.org/glossary.htm
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| secondary disease |
This is where a malignant tumour has invaded another part of the body away from the original tumour. This is also called metastatic disease.
Ãâó: www.mountvernoncancernetwork.nhs.uk/glossary/s.htm
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| secondary cataract |
Remnants of an opaque lens remaining in the eye, or opacities forming, after extracapsular cataract removal.
Ãâó: www.howardnations.com/blindness/blindness_glossary...
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| second law of thermodynamics |
All systems tend toward disorder.
Ãâó: www.ametsoc.org/amsedu/WES/glossary.html
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| second messenger |
A molecule that conveys the chemical message of a hormone or neurotransmitter, or any other extracellular signal (the first messenger,) to the next stage in the cell's biochemical machinery.
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