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Minimal residual disease
Evidence for the presence of residual malignant cells, even when so few cancer cells are present that they cannot be found by routine means. Tests for minimal residual disease (MRD) can detect some early tumors. In a patient who has been…
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Show more- Keratitis, rosacea See: Rosacea keratitis
- Syndrome, Alexander See: Alexander disease
- ORF Open reading frame
- Oophoritis Inflammation of the ovary or egg sac.
- Autoimmune process A process in which the body's immune system attacks and destroys body tissue that it mistakes for foreign…
- Sinoatrial node The sinoatrial node (the SA node) is one of the major elements in the cardiac conduction system, the system…
- Grief, complicated See: Complicated grief
- Syndrome, Menkes See: Menkes syndrome
- Pancytopenia, Fanconi See Fanconi anemia
- Antiprotozoal drug Something that destroys protozoa or inhibits their growth and ability to reproduce. A few of the protozoa of…
- Benign lymphoreticulosis Cat scratch disease, a mild flu-like infection, with swollen lymph nodes (lymphadenitis) and mild fever of…
- Thiazolidinedione (Pronounced THIGH-ah-ZO-li-deen-DYE-own.) A class of drugs for type 2 diabetes that lower the blood sugar by…