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Flexikon - The flexible lexicon

The DocCheck Flexikon is an open medical lexicon. It is maintained by all users and therefore always up-to-date. Go ahead and make your personal medical knowledge available to the public!

The English version of our Flexikon already comprises 210 pages and it grows by the day. Please click here to switch to the German version of the Flexikon.

Please visit our help page and try out our playground to learn how to edit and enrich the accumulated knowledge.

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  • The DocCheck Flexikon is available in English since October 2005. We are looking forward to see your new articles coming in!

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Ophthalmoplegia - J point - P-value - Statistical Tests - Calcium - Shannon's equation - Information - System - Reafference principle - Lateral inhibition - Feedforward control - Embryo - Interactomics - In silico - Endocrinology
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Peptide hormone - Insulin - PEDIS Classification - HOMA - Ultrashort feedback - Brokken-Wiersinga-Prummel loop - Pickardt Syndrome - Tcejopasry - Cervical spine syndrome - Syphilis - Devic's Disease - Cannabis - Hormone - Tonsils - Physics
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Insulin

Definition

The peptide hormone insulin regulates the absorption of glucose in body cells. It has a gl...

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Thyroid - Cell - Protein - Pituitary - Secretion - Hypothalamus - Metabolism - Blood - Pancreas - Immune system - Hypoglycemia - MiMe-NoCoDI model - Organism - Brain - DNA
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Syphilis - Sleeping sickness - Chromosome - HIV - Scapula


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