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Nonmelanoma skin cancer
Skin cancer that does not involve melanocytes. Basal cell cancer and squamous cell cancer are nonmelanoma skin cancers
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- Cataplasm A poultice or plaster. A soft moist mass, often warm and medicated, that is spread over the skin to treat an…
- Ophthalmia Inflammation of the eye. Also known as ophthalmitis
- Atrophy Wasting away or diminution. Muscle atrophy is wasting of muscle, decrease in muscle mass. A nerve can also…
- Resuscitate To restore to life. Derived from the Latin resuscitare, to reawaken
- Specificity 1. The quality of being specific as, for example, she showed the use of specificity in her diagnosis. 2. The…
- Pavlov stomach A Pavlov pouch fashioned surgically from part of the stomach (which is isolated from the rest of the…
- Transplantation genetics The field of biology and medicine relating to the genes that govern the acceptance or rejection of a…
- Dissection, radical neck See: Multiple sclerosis.
- Test, inkblot A test used in clinical psychology and psychiatry involving inkblots. The inkblots are used to determine what…
- AID (artificial insemination by donor) A procedure in which a fine catheter (tube) is inserted through the cervix (the natural opening of the…
- Sarcoma, metastatic A sarcoma that is spreading into other body tissues through the lymphatic system. The most common site for…