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Cancer, leukemia
Leukemia is a cancer of the white blood cells. Leukemias are grouped by how quickly the disease develops (acute or chronic) as well as by the type of blood cell that is affected. People with leukemia are at significantly increased risk for…
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Show more- CT Abbreviation for: 1. Cognitive therapy; and, more often today 2. Computerized tomography, as in CT scan. CT…
- Conor and Bruch disease African tick typhus, one of the tick-borne rickettsial diseases of the eastern hemisphere similar to Rocky…
- Brittle bone disease Osteogenesis imperfecta, not one but a group of genetic diseases, all of which affect collagen, a key…
- Indifferent gonad In embryonic life, the gonad in males and females is initially identical. This gonad is said to be…
- Melorheostosis A rare bone condition that usually begins in childhood characterized by thickening of the bones (sclerosis)…
- CNR2 Cannabinoid receptor 2
- Preauricular tag A common minor anomaly, this is a rudimentary tag of ear tissue. It often contains a core of cartilage. The…
- Mast cell tumor A mastocytoma
- Pickwickian syndrome The combination of obesity, somnolence (sleepiness), hypoventilation (underbreathing), and plethoric (red)…
- Recombinant tPA Recombinant tissue plasminogen activator. See: Tissue plasminogen activator
- Angiogenesis The process of developing new blood vessels. Angiogenesis is important in the normal development of the…
- Intravitreous In the vitreous, the fluid behind the lens in the eye. As in an intravitreous injection.