Medical terms beginning with D

A drug that is used to treat many types of cancer and is being studied in the treatment of other types of cancer.

A form of the anticancer drug doxorubicin that is contained in very tiny, fat-like particles.

One of the few antibiotics that reaches organisms living inside human cells, which is why tick-borne and atypical infections come back to it.

The word durable is what matters here: this authority keeps working at the point when the person can no longer decide.

Belongs to a group of antihormone drugs.

A protein on the surface of certain cells that binds another protein called TRAIL, which may kill some cancer cells.

A protein on the surface of certain cells that binds another protein called TRAIL, which may kill some cancer cells.

In medicine, a drain is a tube or wick placed to remove fluid from a wound, surgical site, or body cavity as it accumulates.

Digital here means finger rather than electronic, and the reach of that finger is the main limitation of the whole examination.

One word doing two jobs, respectable and illicit, which is why regulators and clinicians often reach for medicine or medication instead.

The use of illegal drugs or the use of prescription or over-the-counter drugs for purposes other than those for which they are meant to be used, or in large amounts.

A log of study drugs kept by an investigator running a clinical trial.

A drug interaction alters a medication's effect when combined with another substance, potentially strengthening, weakening, or otherwise changing its action.

The failure of cancer cells, viruses, or bacteria to respond to a drug used to kill or weaken them.

The formal name for treating illness with medicines, whatever the route and whatever the outcome being sought.

A condition that occurs when the body gets used to a medicine so that either more medicine is needed or different medicine is needed.

Sexual climax without the release of semen from the penis.

Data and Safety Monitoring Board.

An anticancer drug formed by the combination of diphtheria toxin and a colony-stimulating factor (GM-CSF).

An inflammatory response that develops 24 to 72 hours after exposure to an antigen that the immune system recognizes as foreign.