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Tumor marker
Tumor markers are substances that can be detected in higher-than-normal amounts in the blood, urine, or body tissues of some patients with certain types of cancer. A tumor marker may be made by a tumor itself or by the body in response to…
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Show more- Dysphonia See: Spasmodic dysphonia.
- NBCCS Nevoid basal cell carcinoma syndrome, also known as the Gorlin syndrome
- Sac, egg See: Egg sac
- Spastic paraplegia, autosomal dominant A degenerative disorder of nerves with progressive spasticity of the legs. Abbreviated as AD-HSP. Spasticity…
- Paternal age The age of the father at the time he conceives a child. The present mean (average) paternal age is 27 years…
- Insecticidal Capable of killing insects or controlling their growth
- Neurodegeneration with brain iron accumulation See: Hallervorden-Spatz disease
- Medicine, geriatric The branch of medicine concerned with the diagnosis, treatment and prevention of disease in older people and…
- Enteropathy, gluten See: Gluten enteropathy
- Glans penis, inflammation of the Inflammation of the rounded head (the glans) of the penis is called balanitis. In the uncircumcised male…
- Puncture, lumbar A lumbar puncture or 'LP' is a procedure whereby spinal fluid is removed from the spinal canal for the…
- Syphilitic 1. Relating to syphilis, caused by it, or suffering from it.2. A person with syphilis. From the French…