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Corporeal
Pertaining to the body of an organ or the entire body. The term also serves as a suffix, as in intracorporeal or extracorporeal. From the Latin corpus meaning body and ultimately from an Indo-European word that is also the ancestor of the…
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Show more- World Health Organization An agency of the United Nations established in 1948 to further international cooperation in improving health…
- Tonic-clonic seizure The classic type of epileptic seizure consisting of two phases to a tonic-clonic seizure -- the tonic phase…
- Hypercarbia More than the normal level of carbon dioxide in the blood. Hypercarbia is the opposite of hypocarbia
- Pseudogout Pseudogout: Inflammation of the joints caused by deposits of calcium pyrophosphate crystals, resulting in…
- Quantitative Having to do with quantity or with the amount. See also qualitative.
- Radiation therapy, conformal A procedure that uses computers to create a 3-dimensional picture of the tumor in order to target the tumor…
- Pacemaker Pacemaker: A system that sends electrical impulses to the heart in order to set the heart rhythm. The…
- Headache, migraine See migraine headache.
- Melanoma, amelanotic A form of melanoma in which the malignant cells (melanocytes) do not make the pigment melanin. Amelanotic…
- Molecules, recombinant DNA A combination of DNA molecules of different origin that are joined using recombinant DNA technology
- Salvage chemotherapy Chemotherapy given after recurrence of a tumor. See: Salvage therapy
- Angiotensin converting enzyme Usually abbreviated ACE