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Symptomatic treatment
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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- Congenital brevicollis See: Klippel-Feil sequence
- Xanthelasma Tiny (1-2 mm) yellowish plaques that are slightly raised on the skin surface of the upper or lower eyelids…
- Backbone The spine. A flexible row of bones stretching from the base of the skull to the tailbone
- Open-label A term used to describe the situation when both the researcher and the participant in a research study know…
- Inappropriate ADH secretion A syndrome of inappropriate secretion of antidiuretic hormone (ADH) which results in the inability to put out…
- Additive genetic effects A mechanism of quantitative inheritance such that the combined effects of genetic alleles at two or more gene…
- Nurse assistant A person who has completed a brief health-care training program, and who provides support services for RNs…
- Nephrology The art and science of the care of the kidney.
- Pneumatic larynx A device that uses air to produce sound, helping a person whose larynx has been removed to talk
- Poland syndrome Poland syndrome: A developmental disorder of the chest wall involving a unique pattern of one-sided…
- Blast phase Refers to advanced chronic myelogenous leukemia. In this phase, the number of immature, abnormal white blood…