| hospitals, satellite | Those hospitals which are extensions of a main hospital and are wholly or partly administered by that hospital. (12 Dec 1998) |
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| DNA, satellite | DNA that contains many tandem (not inverted) repeats of a short basic repeating unit. Satellite DNA is located at very specific spots in the genome (on chromosomes 1, 9, 16 and the Y chromosome, the tiny short arms of chromosomes 13-15 and 21 and 22, and near the centromeres of chromosomes). (12 Dec 1998) |
| tobacco mosaic virus satellite | A spherical RNA satellite virus which requires an obligatory rod-shaped helper tobacco mosaic virus for replication. (12 Dec 1998) |