Biology or Medicine
- Adult stem cell, undifferentiated cells found in the human body that perform repair-related functions
- Agitated saline contrast, a bubbled saline solution used in an agitated saline contrast test, a diagnostic heart procedure
- Anterior subcapsular cataract, a type of clouding of the eye
- ASC Gene (apoptosis-associated speck-like protein containing a CARD), with the formal name of PYCARD, a protein
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