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- Colpo- A group of diagnostic and therapeutic disciplines that are used together with conventional medicine. An…
- Topical chemotherapy Chemotherapy: Treatment with an anticancer drug in a lotion, ointment or cream that is applied to the skin.
- Embolus Something that travels through the bloodstream, lodges in a blood vessel and blocks it. Examples of emboli…
- Complication In medicine, an additional problem that arises following a procedure, treatment or illness and is secondary…
- Dercum disease A condition characterized by painful fatty tumors (lipomas) beneath the skin. The diseases tends to be…
- Epilepsy, temporal-lobe Epilepsy that is characterized by abnormal electrical activity in the temporal lobe of the brain. This…
- Aneurysm, dissecting An aneurysm is a localized widening (dilatation) of an artery, vein, or the heart. At the area of an…