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Attention, chocolate lovers: You may not be able to help yourselves. Swiss and British scientists have linked the widespread love of chocolate to a chemical "signature" that may be programmed into our metabolic systems.
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Nephropathy
Nephropathy: A medical word for kidney disease. Nephropathy can be applied to any disease of the kidney. The prefix "nephro-" denotes the kidney. From the Greek "nephros" meaning kidney. Greece also provided "- pathy" from "pathos" meaning disease. A nephrectomy (surgical removal of the kidney) might, for example, be done because of nephropathy.