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Radiotherapy
The treatment of disease with ionizing radiation. Also called radiation therapy. In radiotherapy, high-energy rays are often used to damage cancer cells and stop them from growing and dividing. A specialist in the radiation treatment of…
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- Vein, central retinal The blood vessel that carries blood away from the retina of the eye. The counterpart to the central retinal…
- Afterbirth The placenta + the fetal membranes that are normally expelled from the uterus after the birth of the baby…
- Repeat In genetics, two or more adjacent copies of an identical pattern of nucleotides in the DNA, as in tandem…
- Juxtaposition The prefix 'juxta-' comes from the Latin preposition meaning near, nearby, close. Juxtaposition is thus the…
- Adult respiratory distress syndrome Better known as ARDS. See: ARDS
- Isotope A form of a chemical element with the same atomic number as another element but having a different atomic…
- Hyperconscious More conscious than usual. Extremely aware. People became hyperconscious of Parkinson disease after the actor…
- Sutton law See: Sutton's law
- Brain aneurysm Brain aneurysm: A brain aneurysm is a small outpouching (an aneurysm) that looks like a berry and classically…
- Alveolar hydatid disease >By directly ingesting food contaminated with stool from foxes or coyotes. This might include grass, herbs…
- Ragged red fibers with CPEO See: Kearns-Sayre syndrome