Category: T

Becoming altered spontaneously within a definite time.  

The temperature obtained by placing an electronic probe in the ear canal.  

The state of an individual’s mood, disposition, or mind (e.g., even-tempered or foul-tempered). A process used to condition a new brass pressing comb so that it heats evenly.  

A colloquial term for the combination of radiation therapy with the chemotherapeutic drug temozolomide, a treatment for patients with glioblastoma multiforme.  

The progressive shortening of the end regions of chromosomes that occurs with each cell replication cycle; this loss of genetic material may serve as the clock that defines aging at the cellular level.  

A means of detecting telomerase activity in laboratory specimens. Telomerase can be used as a biomarker for the presence of malignant cells. TRAP has been used to detect abnormal telomerase activity in urine (a marker of bladder cancer) and in tissue and cell extracts, e.g., in lymphomas or renal tumors.  

The membrane of the axon terminal at a neuromuscular junction.  

Concerning an egg in which the large yolk mass is concentrated at one pole.  

The Schwann cells at the end of a motor nerve fiber near the neuromuscular junction.  

The resting stage of the hair growth cycle.