latent
Present but not announcing itself, a state that separates carrying something from being ill with it.
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340 matcheslavender
Lavender is an aromatic flowering plant whose oil is widely used in aromatherapy and traditional preparations for its calming scent.
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A lemon is a citrus fruit valued as a natural source of vitamin C, historically important for preventing the vitamin C deficiency scurvy.
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A blood donation run in reverse: the machine keeps the white cells and hands back everything else, over several hours.
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An old deworming drug now met far more often as a cocaine adulterant, capable of wiping out the white cells that fight infection.
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A lobectomy removes one entire lobe of an organ, most often the lung, sparing the rest of the organ and its function.
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Cancer is found in the lining of the chest wall and may also be found in the lining of the lung, the lining of the diaphragm (the thin muscle below the lungs and heart that separates the chest from…
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A lumpectomy removes a breast tumor along with a margin of surrounding normal tissue while preserving as much of the breast as possible.
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One name covers two diseases that differ in nearly everything except the cell they come from: pace, age and urgency.
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Dozens of separate diseases sit under this one word, some watched for years without treatment and others needing care within days.
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Leafy greens, nuts, seeds, beans and whole grains supply it, and the kidneys decide how much of it stays.
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Where a cancer began, not where it is found, is what names it, and the tissue of origin sets everything that follows.
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Compression is the uncomfortable part and also the useful part, since spreading the tissue thin is what makes small findings visible at a lower dose.
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Mast cells are immune cells stationed throughout skin and mucosal tissue that release histamine and drive allergic and inflammatory reactions.
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Because these enzymes can also weaken normal tissue architecture, their activity is implicated in disease processes well beyond their role in ordinary repair.
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The maxillary sinus is the largest paranasal sinus, an air filled space within the cheekbone that drains into the nasal cavity.
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Fifty separate programs under one name, which is why Medicaid enrollment alone says little about what a given person is covered for.
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Regulatory oversight for medical devices generally scales with risk, so a simple bandage faces far less scrutiny than an implanted pacemaker.
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The one thyroid cancer arising from a different cell type entirely, and the one most likely to run in families.
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Megestrol is a synthetic progestin used to treat certain hormone sensitive cancers and to help stimulate appetite in people with significant weight loss.
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