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Bowen disease
An early stage of skin cancer. Bowen's disease is medically the same as 'squamous cell carcinoma in situ.' Squamous cell carcinoma is a tumor that develops from the squamous cells which are flat, scale-like cells in the outer layer of the…
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Show more- Carbon dioxide content A measure of the bicarbonate level in the blood. The normal carbon dioxide content may vary somewhat from one…
- Hormone therapy Hormone therapy: A form of treatment that takes advantage of the fact that certain cancers depend on hormones…
- Chromosome, acrocentric An abnormal chromosome that is distinctive in appearance but not fully identified. A marker chromosome is not…
- Antibody-dependent cell-mediated cytotoxicity An immune response in which antibody, by coating target cells, makes them vulnerable to attack by immune…
- Hemophagocytic lymphohistiocytosis A rare, cancer-like disorder in which both histiocytes and lymphocytes start to proliferate and attack body…
- Corneal dystrophy, lattice See: Lattice dystrophy
- Draft DNA sequence Sequence of a DNA with less accuracy than a finished sequence. In a draft sequence, some segments are missing…
- T-8 cells T cells that express the CD8 transmembrane glycoprotein (CD8+ T cells). They close down the immune response…
- Iatrogenic Due to the action of a physician or a therapy the doctor prescibed. An iatrogenic disease may be…
- Bubble boy disease Severe combined immunodeficiency disease
- Diving injury An injury incurred from diving into water that is too shallow or has hidden hazards. These injuries may be to…
- De Quervain's tenosynovitis De Quervain's tenosynovitis: De Quervain's tenosynovitis is inflammation of tendons on the side of the wrist…