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Salvage therapy
1. A final treatment for people who are nonresponsive to or cannot tolerate other available therapies for a particular condition and whose prognosis is often poor.2. In oncology, a treatment given after a tumor has not responded to other…
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Show more- Mucolipidosis IV A type of mucolipidosis due to mutation in the gene encoding mucolipin-1. Most patients have developmental…
- African-American See: African American
- Isotopic Referring to an isotope, a form of a chemical element with the same atomic number as another element but…
- Fear of demons S (demons): An abnormal and persistent fear of evil supernatural beings in persons who believe such beings…
- Medium-chain acyl-CoA dehydrogenase deficiency See: MCAD deficiency
- Immune tolerance A state of unresponsiveness to a specific antigen or group of antigens to which a person is normally…
- Orthoscopic Having correct vision or producing it. Orthoscopic, in other words, is free from optical distortion or…
- Diachronic study A study done over the course of time. For example, a longitudinal study of children with Down syndrome…
- Inspissate To thicken. Inspissated bile is thickened bile
- Nef gene Short for negative factor gene, a gene the absence (or defect) of which diminishes the strength of a disease…
- Polydipsia Excessive thirst all the time. Polydipsia occurs, for example, in untreated or poorly controlled diabetes…
- Mucopolysaccharidosis type IVB Morquio syndrome due to deficiency of the enzyme beta-galactosidase. See also Mucopolysaccharidosis