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Cancer care
Cancer care: Taking care of cancer. When cancer is suspected, a biopsy is usually performed and the tissue is sent to a pathologist for evaluation. If a cancer diagnosis is made, an oncologist will evaluate the patient to determine the…
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Show more- Postural Pertaining to the posture or position of the body, the attitude or carriage of the body as a whole, or the…
- Gua sha See: Gua-sha
- Orchiectomy The surgical removal of one or both testes.
- Dip, paraffin A treatment for the symptoms of joint and muscle conditions, such as arthritis, that consists of melted…
- ENT 1. Abbreviation for ears, nose and throat. A field of medicine also called otolaryngology. 2. Abbreviation…
- Nurses Health Study A very large and important prospective investigation into the risk factors for major chronic diseases in…
- Disseminated sclerosis See: Multiple sclerosis
- Lithotripsy, extracorporeal shock wave See: Extracorporeal shock wave lithotripsy
- Duane and radial ray anomaly with deafness See: Okihiro syndrome
- RDS (respiratory distress syndrome) Formerly known as hyaline membrane disease, a syndrome of respiratory difficulty in newborn infants caused by…
- Familial mental retardation 1 See FMR1.
- Tenth cranial nerve The tenth cranial nerve, and one of the most important, is the vagus nerve. All twelve of the cranial nerves…