hahnium
a chemical element, atomic number 105, atomic weight 260, symbol Ha. See Table 6.
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Haight baby rib spreader
a self-retaining retractor, designed for surgery on human infants, but useful in small animals.
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Hainan pig
small to dwarf, Chinese pig, black with white head and back, smooth skin, long head, prick ears.
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Hainsworth’s energy groups
animals divided into groups on the basis of their mean core body temperature range; used for scaling dose rates of drugs for animals on the basis of body weight.
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hair
1. a threadlike keratinized epidermal structure developing from a follicle sunk in the dermis, produced only by mammals and characteristic of that group of animals. Also, the aggregate of such hairs. 2. various other threadlike structures.
auditory h’s hairlike attachments of the epithelial cells of the inner ear.
h. beds coat hairs occur in groups of about three primary follicles and ... |
hairball
see trichobezoar.
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hairiness
see hirsutism.
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hairlessness
see alopecia, hypotrichosis, semihairlessness.
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hairpin
a secondary structure that occurs in single-strand RNA during protein synthesis in which the strand turns back on itself. The structure is the result of base pairing and hydrogen bond formation.
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hairworms
see capillaria.
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