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Malignant
1. Tending to be severe and become progressively worse, as in malignant hypertension. 2. In regard to a tumor, having the properties of a malignancy that can invade and destroy nearby tissue and that may spread (metastasize) to other parts…
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Show more- Antonomastic Concerning, pertaining to, or characteristic of antonomasia. See also: Antonomasia
- Syndrome, Kawasaki A syndrome of unknown origin, mainly affecting young children, that causes fever, reddening of the eyes…
- Sperm A sperm is the male 'gamete' or sex cell. It combines with the female 'gamete,' called an ovum, to form a…
- Lactation The process of milk production. Human milk is secreted by the mammary glands, which are located within the…
- Enzyme defect A disorder resulting from a deficiency (or functional abnormality) of an enzyme. In 1902 Archibald Garrod…
- Laryngoscopist A person who uses a laryngoscope, a flexible, lighted tube used to look at the inside of the larynx (the…
- Stepmother The wife of a man who had a child by another women. See: Novercal
- Vaccinia gangrenosa See Progressive vaccinia
- Dystonia, writer's cramp A dystonia that affects the muscles of the hand and sometimes the forearm and only occurs during handwriting…
- Campylobacter jejuni A bacterium that typically infects the bowels. Now the leading cause of bacterial food poisoning…
- Test, physiologic stress Although there can be a diversity of physiologic stress tests, this refers here to a physiologic cardiac…
- Dose, absorbed In radiology, the absorbed dose is the amount of energy that is deposited in any material by ionizing…