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Melanoma vaccine
A cancer vaccine prepared from human melanoma cancer cells. It may be used alone or with other therapy in treating melanoma.
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Show more- Syndrome, hemolytic uremic See: Hermansky-Pudlak syndrome.
- Liver spot A pigmented flat spot on sun-exposed skin in older adults, especially on the back of the hands and on the…
- Hammer toe A flexed (curled) but not abnormally rotated toe. May require surgical correction
- Benjamin Spock See: Spock, Benjamin
- Clitorectomy A surgical procedure in which all or part of the clitoris and sometimes also the labia are removed…
- External fixation A procedure that stabilizes and joins the ends of fractured (broken) bones by a splint or cast. External…
- Accessory placenta An extra placenta separate from the main placenta. Also called a succenturiate or supernumerary placenta. The…
- Navel The umbilicus, the former site of attachment of the umbilical cord, usually found in about the middle of the…
- Upper motor neuron A neuron that starts in the motor cortex of the brain and terminates within the medulla (another part of the…
- Cancer, esophageal See: Esophageal cancer
- Tympanometry A test that measures the function of the middle ear. Tympanometry works by varying the pressure within the…
- Atelectasis Failure of full expansion of the lung at birth or a collapse thereafter of the lung. The word comes from the…