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Treatment, symptomatic
Therapy that eases the symptoms without addressing the basic cause of the disease. For example, symptomatic treatment of advanced lung cancer that has spread (metastasized) beyond the lung is designed to decrease the pain and other…
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- QALY Quality adjusted life year, a year of life adjusted for its quality or its value. A year in perfect health is…
- ET Street name for alpha-ethyltryptamine
- Conjoined twins See: Conjoined twin
- Intraperitoneal chemotherapy Chemotherapy: Treatment in which anticancer drugs are put directly into the abdomen through a thin tube
- Coloscopy See: Colonoscopy
- Superjacent Lying just above or upon. Overlying. The opposite of superjacent is subjacent. Other related terms include…
- Agnosia The inability to recognize and identify objects or persons despite having knowledge of the characteristics of…
- Agnate 1. As a noun, a relative on the father's side. 2. As an adjective, related on the father's side. As opposed…
- Kussmaul breathing Air hunger.
- Introitus, facial canal In anatomy, an introitus is an entrance, one that goes into a canal or hollow organ. The introitus of the…
- Nephrolith A kidney stone