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Hospice
A program or facility that provides special care for people who are near the end of life and for their families. Hospice care can be provided at home, in a hospice or another freestanding facility, or within a hospital. See also: Hospice…
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- Transplantation, peripheral blood stem cell A new technique in which stem cells are obtained from a patient's blood and used in bone marrow…
- Pelvis, female See: Female pelvis
- American Cancer Society (ACS) A 'nationwide community-based voluntary health organization dedicated to eliminating cancer as a major health…
- Vasoconstriction Narrowing of the blood vessels resulting from contracting of the muscular wall of the vessels. The opposite…
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. See: Holmes, Oliver Wendell, Sr.
- Genitalia, female See: Female genitalia
- Hymen A thin membrane which completely or partially occludes the vaginal opening. The hymen is a fold of mucous…
- Adenoid cystic carcinoma A type of cancer that most often develops in the salivary glands of the head and neck. It may arise in other…
- Cation In chemistry, a positively charged ion. Pronounced cat-I-on. A cation is as opposed to an anion, which is a…
- Pork tapeworm Taenia solium