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Large brown seaweed sold as a supplement, notable in medicine mainly for how much iodine it carries.
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99 matcheskidney failure
A condition in which the kidneys stop working and are not able to remove waste and extra water from the blood or keep body chemicals in balance.
Read definitionKlinefelter syndrome
Among the commonest chromosome differences in people, and among the most often missed, because the outward signs are easy to overlook.
Read definitionlavender
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 condition in which extra lymph fluid builds up in tissues and causes swelling.
Read definitionmatrix metalloproteinase
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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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 tropical shrub.
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A tumor that is found in endocrine tissue but does not make extra hormones.
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Morinda citrifolia.
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A nutraceutical is a food derived product marketed for a health benefit beyond basic nutrition, without meeting the approval standard of a drug.
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An opiate is a pain-relieving substance derived directly from opium, a narrower category than the broader term opioid, which also includes synthetic drugs.
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An oxide is any compound formed when oxygen chemically combines with another element, a category spanning substances as different as water, rust, and certain plant oils.
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Supplemental oxygen given as a treatment for low blood oxygen, delivered at a controlled concentration rather than as much as possible.
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Paclitaxel is a chemotherapy drug derived from yew tree bark that stabilizes microtubules to block cancer cell division.
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Despite the name, the defining problem is hormonal rather than the small follicles that scans pick up, and it reaches well beyond the ovaries.
Read definitionPediaSure
PediaSure is a brand of nutritional supplement drink marketed for children who need extra calories and nutrients beyond regular meals.
Read definitionpegylated recombinant human hyaluronidase PH20
A pegylated formulation of a recombinant form of human hyaluronidase with potential antitumor activity.
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The calcium salt of pentetic acid, a synthetic chelating agent related to the chelating agent ethylenediaminetetraacetic acid (EDTA).
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