Medical Terms
A brief guide to medical terms that are used when discussing Protein S Deficiency:
- autosomal dominant - requires only one affected parent to have the trait to pass it to offspring.
- autosomal recessive - mutation carried on an autosome that is deleterious only in homozygotes.
- phlebotomy - to puncture a vein for the purpose of withdrawing blood.
- protein - the principal constituent of the protoplasm of all cells, are of high molecular weight and consisting essentially of combinations of amino acids in peptide linkages.
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Last updated: Wednesday, 3rd January 2018
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