membrane
A membrane is a thin sheet of tissue that lines, covers, separates, or encloses a body structure or cavity.
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340 matchesMEN1 syndrome
A rare, inherited disorder that affects the endocrine glands and can cause tumors in the parathyroid and pituitary glands and the pancreas.
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Menstruation is the cyclical shedding of the uterine lining that occurs when pregnancy does not take place, recurring throughout the reproductive years.
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Metasynchronous describes a second finding, such as a related tumor, identified within a short interval of the first rather than at the same time.
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The drug arrives inactive and becomes a poison only inside organisms that live without oxygen, which is the source of its narrow aim.
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MGUS is a generally symptomless blood finding that carries a modest, ongoing risk of eventually progressing to multiple myeloma or a related condition.
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A plant that lives partly off the tree it grows on, and the source of a widely debated injected therapy.
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A deliberately modest word: it promises less of a problem, never none of it, which is why precision about the amount matters.
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Muscle and nerve fail first when these break down, because those tissues burn the most energy and store the least.
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Cells rely on mitosis for both growth and the routine replacement of worn out tissue, producing two daughter cells with matching genetic material.
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Shape treated as evidence: what a cell, an organ or a whole organism looks like, before asking what it does or is made of.
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Breast cancer in which there is more than one tumor, all of which have formed separately from one another.
Read definitionmultiple endocrine adenomatosis
A rare, inherited disorder that affects the endocrine glands and can cause tumors in the parathyroid and pituitary glands and the pancreas.
Read definitionmultiple endocrine neoplasia type 1 syndrome
A rare, inherited disorder that affects the endocrine glands and can cause tumors in the parathyroid and pituitary glands and the pancreas.
Read definitionmultiple sclerosis
Scattered patches of damage explain the scattered symptoms, since what a person notices depends entirely on which pathway has been hit.
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Multiplicity describes the presence of more than one instance of a finding, such as several tumors or lesions, within the same patient or organ.
Read definitionmyeloproliferative disorder
These conditions are grouped by overproduction of blood cells, setting them apart from disorders in which the marrow instead fails to produce enough.
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A whole system rather than a single treatment, built on the premise that the body heals itself once the obstacles are removed.
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NES applies small electrical impulses to weak or paralyzed muscles to help maintain strength, circulation, and range of motion.
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Neurotransmitters are chemical messengers released by nerve cells to relay signals across the small gaps separating one nerve cell from another or from a muscle.
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