An osteoclast (from the Greek words for "bone" (Οστό) and "broken" (κλαστός)) is a type of bone cell that resorbs bone tissue. This function is critical in the maintenance and repair of compact bon...
A mechanoreceptor is a sensory receptor that responds to mechanical pressure or distortion. Normally there are four main types in glabrous skin: Pacinian corpuscles, Meissner's corpuscles, Merkel's...
Fundus photography is performed by a fundus camera, which basically consists of a specialized low power microscope with an attached camera. The optical design of fundus cameras is based on the pri...
Hematopoietic stem cells (HSCs) are the blood cells that give rise to all the other blood cells and are derived from mesoderm. They are located in the red bone marrow, which is contained in the cor...
Redox/Fyn/c-Cbl pathway
Glial cells, sometimes called neuroglia or simply glia (Greek γλία, γλοία "glue"; pronounced in English as either /ˈɡliːə/ or /ˈɡlaɪə/), are non-neuronal cells that maintain homeostasis, form myeli...
Bleeding, technically known as hemorrhaging or hæmorrhaging (see American and British spelling differences), is blood escaping from the circulatory system.[1] Bleeding can occur internally, where b...
Curcumin /ˈkərkjuːmən/ (pronounced "Kur kyoo min")[1] is a diarylheptanoid. It is the principal curcuminoid of the popular South Asian spice turmeric, which is a member of the ginger family (Zingib...
Medical apparatuses incorporating dyes
The B-cell lymphomas are types of lymphoma affecting B cells. Lymphomas are "blood cancers" in the lymph glands. They develop more frequently in older adults and in immunocompromised individuals.
Gene transfer
In human navigation people visualize different routes in their minds to plan how to get from one place to another. The things which they rely on to plan these routes vary from person to person and ...
Polarization converter
Liquid crystals (LCs) are matter in a state that has properties between those of conventional liquid and those of solid crystal.[1] For instance, a liquid crystal may flow like a liquid, but its mo...
Botulism (Latin, botulus, a sausage[1]) (pronounced /ˈbɒtʃʉlɪzəm/) is a rare and potentially fatal paralytic illness caused by a toxin produced by the bacteria Clostridium botulinum. The disease be...
Structured illumination for imaging
A biosensor is an analytical device, used for the detection of an analyte, that combines a biological component with a physicochemical detector.[1][2] the sensitive biological element (e.g. tiss...
In materials science, shear modulus or modulus of rigidity, denoted by G, or sometimes S or μ, is defined as the ratio of shear stress to the shear strain:[1] G \ \stackrel{\mathrm{def}}{=}\ \fr...
A semiconductor is a material which has electrical conductivity between that of a conductor such as copper and that of an insulator such as glass. Semiconductors are the foundation of modern electr...
