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Epithelial carcinoma
Cancer that begins in the cells that line an organ.
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- Disease, Still See: Arthritis, systemic-onset juvenile rheumatoid
- PON The symbol for the enzyme called paraoxonase
- Progesterone A female hormone and the principal progestational hormone that is made mainly by the corpus luteum in the…
- Therapy, cell Treatment with cells. A technology that relies on replacing diseased or dysfunctional cells with healthy…
- Neuronitis, vestibular See: Vestibular neuronitis
- Pecs Slang for the pectoral muscles, muscles of the 'anterior chest' (the front of the chest). The Latin 'pectus'…
- Exfoliate 1) To peal off scaly skin spontaneously. The skin exfoliates from the palms and soles in Kawasaki's disease…
- Parietal lobe Part of the brain, specifically the section of the cerebral hemisphere that lies beneath the parietal bone…
- Cancer, breast, susceptibility genes Cancer, breast, susceptibility genes: Inherited factors that predispose to breast cancer. Put otherwise…
- Autoimmune polyendocrinopathy syndrome A genetic autoimmune disease with an extraordinary array of clinical features but characterized most often by…