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Biological therapy
Biological therapy: Treatment to stimulate or restore the ability of the immune (defense) system to fight infection and disease. Biological therapy is thus any form of treatment that uses the body's natural abilities that constitute the…
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- Asian cholera A devastating and sometimes lethal disease with intense vomiting and profuse watery diarrhea was discovered…
- Alzheimer disease See: Alzheimer's disease
- Gastropathy Disease of the stomach, as in hypoproteinemic hypertrophic gastropathy. Gastropathy comes from gastro-…
- Chemokine receptor Chemokine receptor: A molecule that receives a chemokine and a chemokine dock. A chemokine is a protein that…
- Strabismus surgery Surgery for strabismus, a condition in which the visual axes of the eyes are not parallel and the eyes appear…
- CPP32 See: Caspase 3
- Wheezer A slang term for a patient who is wheezing. Sometimes applied to someone having serious trouble breathing
- Candidemia Bloodstream infection with Candida, a yeast-like fungus. Persons at high risk for candidemia include…