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Radiation oncologist
A specialist in the use of radiation therapy as a treatment for cancer
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Show more- Vaccination, children's See: DPT immunization.
- Systemic-onset juvenile chronic arthritis See: Arthritis, systemic-onset juvenile rheumatoid
- Louse-borne typhus See: Typhus, epidemic
- Syndrome, radial aplasia-thrombocytopenia See Syndrome, TAR
- Fear of intercourse An abnormal and persistent fear of male-female sexual intercourse. Sufferers of this fear experience undue…
- Carbon dioxide content A measure of the bicarbonate level in the blood. The normal carbon dioxide content may vary somewhat from one…
- Pseudoobstruction, myopathic Intestinal pseudoobstruction caused by damage to muscle cells in the walls of the bowel
- Coronary artery brachytherapy Local radiation treatment within an artery to the heart. Coronary artery brachytherapy has been used to…
- Hemidiaphragm, elevated See: Elevated hemidiaphragm
- M protein An antibody or part of an antibody found in unusually large amounts in the blood or urine of patients with…
- Syndrome, locked-in A neurological disorder characterized by complete paralysis of voluntary muscles in all parts of the body…
- Synesthete A person with synesthesia, a condition in which the normally separate senses are not separate. Sight may…