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Cryosurgery
Treatment performed with an instrument that freezes and destroys abnormal tissue. See also cryotherapy.
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- Medication, anticoagulant A drug that is used as a 'blood-thinner' to prevent the formation of blood clots and to maintain open blood…
- Vein, small saphenous The smaller of the two saphenous veins, the principal veins that run up the leg superficially (near the…
- Outpatient A patient who is not an inpatient (not hospitalized) but instead is cared for elsewhere -- as in a doctor's…
- Allodynia Pain from stimuli which are not normally painful. The pain may occur other than in the area stimulated…
- Gene, suicide A gene whose expression in a cell is lethal for that cell. Suicide genes form the basis of a strategy for…
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