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Differentiation therapy
Differentiation therapy: An approach to the treatment of advanced or aggressive malignancies in which the malignant cells are treated so that they can resume the process of maturation and differentiation into mature cells. Differentiation…
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Show more- Syndrome, cyclic vomiting Better known today as Ehlers-Danlos syndrome (EDS), is an inherited disorder with easy bruising, joint…
- Syndrome, Waardenburg See Waardenburg syndrome
- Black eye Bruising of the eyelid and/or under- eye area as a result of trauma to the eye. Colloquially called a shiner
- Pathologic fracture A bone broken, not by trauma alone, but so weakened by disease as to break with abnormal ease. Pathologic…
- Care, managed See: Managed care
- Fracture, clay-shoveler's An uncommon breakage of the spine of the vertebrae from the lower neck or upper back as a result of stress…
- Onycholysis Loosening of the nail from the nail bed, usually starting at the border of the nail. The nail tends to turn…
- Phytanic acid storage disease See Refsum disease
- PARK10 Familial Parkinson disease type 10
- Tachypnea (Pronounced tack-ip-nea.) Abnormally fast breathing. A respiratory rate that is too rapid. The normal rate of…
- Shunt, ventriculoatrial A shunt that drains fluid from the cerebral ventricle into the right atrium of the heart
- Nyctalopia Night blindness, impaired vision in dim light and in the dark, due to impaired function of certain…