biometry
Biometry refers to statistical analysis of health data in research, and separately, in ophthalmology and obstetrics, to direct physical measurement of body structures.
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340 matchesbispecific antibody
Two grips on one molecule, so an engineered antibody can hold a tumor cell and an immune cell face to face.
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A blister is a fluid filled pocket that forms within the skin's outer layers, most often from friction, heat, or irritation.
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One of the most frequently ordered blood tests, counting three separate cell lines at once and pointing in many different directions.
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A nickname that misleads twice over: nothing is thinned, and the phrase covers two drug families that work in different ways.
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A population statistic borrowed for individual use, which is the root of most complaints about it, including where the category lines fall.
Read definitionbone marrow aspiration
This procedure obtains a liquid marrow sample and is frequently performed together with a separate technique that removes a small solid core.
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Plant origin says nothing about strength or safety, since many potent drugs began as plant extracts and some plants are outright poisonous.
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Its usefulness rests less on potency than on delivery, since the liver destroys most of a swallowed dose before it reaches the wider body.
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Chosen as often for what it does not do, since weight gain and sexual side effects are less common than with serotonin antidepressants.
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A roadside weed eaten as a vegetable in East Asia, sold as a blood cleanser, and the plant that inspired hook-and-loop fastening.
Read definitioncancer
Not one disease but hundreds, grouped by the tissue they start in, and it is invasion and spread that separate them from harmless growths.
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Capsule describes both the fibrous tissue enclosing an organ, joint, or tumor and the swallowable gelatin shelled form of many oral medications.
Read definitioncarcinoma in situ
Abnormal cells that look like cancer under the microscope but have not yet crossed the boundary that would let them spread.
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Carcinosis is an older term for widespread dissemination of carcinoma through the body, now generally used interchangeably with carcinomatosis.
Read definitioncarina of trachea
The fork in the airway, and the reason an inhaled object almost always ends up in the right lung rather than the left.
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A fragrant oil sold for aromatherapy and for repelling insects, distilled from several unrelated trees, most of which are not cedars.
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Everything a body does happens inside one of these compartments, which is why disease is ultimately described at this scale.
Read definitioncentral venous access catheter
A tube surgically placed into a blood vessel for the purpose of giving intravenous fluid and drugs.
Read definitionchromatography
Chromatography is a laboratory technique that separates the components of a mixture as they travel at different rates through an absorbing material.
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