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Radiation therapy, conformational
A procedure that uses computers to create a 3-dimensional picture of the tumor in order to target the tumor as accurately as possible and give it the highest possible dose of radiation while sparing normal tissue as much as possible. It is…
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Show more- Preop Short for preoperative, before surgery. The opposite of preop is postop
- Genes The basic biological units of heredity. Segments of deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) needed to contribute to a…
- Ten-day measles An acute highly contagious viral disease with fever, runny nose, cough, red eyes, and a spreading skin rash…
- Adult respiratory distress syndrome Better known as ARDS. See: ARDS
- Retrospective Looking backward on the past, on what has already taken place. A retrospective study looks backward in time…
- Histiocytosis X Now called Langerhans cell histiocytosis. This disease is subclassified into eosinophilic granuloma, Letterer…
- Ankylosing spondylitis Ankylosing spondylitis: A type of arthritis that causes chronic inflammation of the spine and the sacroiliac…
- Microarray A tool used to sift through and analyze the information contained within a genome. A microarray consists of…
- Familial mental retardation 1 See FMR1.
- HHV-8 Human herpesvirus 8, a herpesvirus that contributes to the development of Kaposi sarcoma, an otherwise rare…
- Hearing aid An instrument to help in hearing. There are four common styles of hearing aids. From largest to smallest…
- Clot, blood See Blood clot