Cluster - in Biology and Health Sciences

In Biology and Health Sciences

  • Cancer cluster, in biomedicine, an occurrence of a greater-than-expected number of cancer cases
  • Cluster headache, a neurological disease that involves an immense degree of pain
  • Cluster of differentiation, protocol used for the identification and investigation of cell surface molecules present on white blood cells.
  • Winter cluster, in beekeeping, a well-defined cluster of honey bees in cold temperatures
  • Cluster (epidemiology), a grouping of cases of disease
  • Genetic cluster, a group of genes (or proteins, or metabolites) whose expression or concentration is similar across a range of conditions

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