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Maintenance therapy
Treatment designed to help the original primary treatment succeed. Maintenance chemotherapy may be given to patients with cancer in remission to prevent a relapse
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- Thoracotomy An operation to open the chest
- Fish-odor syndrome An inborn error of metabolism associated with an offensive body odor, the smell of rotting fish, due to the…
- Hemodialysis Hemodialysis: A medical procedure that uses a special machine (a dialysis machine) to filter waste products…
- Chicken soup Long known as Jewish penicillin. See: Jewish penicillin
- Indifferent gonad In embryonic life, the gonad in males and females is initially identical. This gonad is said to be…
- Crabs Slang for pubic lice. See: Public lice
- Lateral femoral cutaneous nerve syndrome See: Meralgia paresthetica
- Cardiovascular The circulatory system comprising the heart and blood vessels which carries nutrients and oxygen to the…
- Sphenoid bone A prominent, irregular, wedge-shaped bone at the base of the skull. The sphenoid bone has been called the…