Medical terms beginning with D

A cell line made from human prostate cancer cells that is used in the laboratory to study the way prostate cancer cells grow.

The standard bone density scan, and one that reports mineral spread across an area rather than through a true volume.

Glands make things the body needs, and ducts are the plumbing that delivers them without spilling into surrounding tissue.

Ductal carcinoma is cancer arising from cells lining a duct, most familiar as the most common form of breast cancer.

A method used to collect cells from milk ducts in the breast.

Cancer has spread from the mucosa (innermost layer) of the colon and/or rectal wall to the submucosa (layer of tissue under the mucosa) of the colon and/or rectal wall.

Cancer has spread (1) through the muscle layer of the colon and/or rectal wall to the serosa (outermost layer) of the colon and/or rectal wall; or (2) through the serosa of the colon and/or rectal…

Cancer (1) may have spread through the mucosa (innermost layer) of the colon and/or rectal wall to the submucosa (layer of tissue under the mucosa) and may have spread to the muscle layer of the…

A staging system used to describe the extent of colorectal cancer.

One drug licensed across mood and pain, duloxetine works partly through spinal cord pathways that damp pain signals before they reach the brain.

A condition that occurs when food or liquid moves too fast into the small intestine.

Duodenitis is inflammation of the first segment of the small intestine, often sharing the same causes and symptoms as gastritis and peptic ulcer disease.

Short as it is, this stretch is where most chemical digestion happens and where several other organs empty their secretions.

A type of power of attorney.

Prostate growth depends on a hormone built from testosterone, and this drug shuts down the enzyme that performs the conversion.

The leg symptoms are not the real danger; the danger is the fragment that breaks away and lodges in the lungs.

An anticancer drug that is a type of antitumor antibiotic.

An anticancer drug that is a type of topoisomerase inhibitor.

A quick low-dose scan that turns bone strength into a single comparable number, and the measurement osteoporosis is defined by.

A two-in-one water pill, pairing a diuretic that wastes potassium with one that conserves it.

Dyscrasia refers to an abnormal condition of the blood, most often involving the cells or proteins that circulate within it.

Dysesthesia is a distorted sense of touch that makes an ordinary stimulus feel painful, unpleasant, or otherwise abnormal.

Dysfunction refers to the abnormal or impaired operation of an organ, system, or process, ranging from mild to severe depending on the cause.

A type of tumor that begins in the type of cells that give rise to egg cells and is most often found in the ovaries.

Dysgeusia is a general term for any disturbance in the sense of taste, including reduced, distorted, or absent taste perception.

Dyspepsia, or indigestion, is a group of upper-abdominal symptoms such as pain, burning, discomfort, early fullness, or uncomfortable fullness after eating.

Dysphagia is difficulty swallowing food, liquid, or saliva, ranging from mild discomfort to an inability to swallow safely.

Dysphonia is any disruption in normal voice production, most often experienced as hoarseness or an altered vocal pitch or quality.

Pathologists grade this finding from mild to severe, and the grade, not the label alone, carries most of its meaning.

A dysplastic nevus itself is benign, but its presence, particularly in larger numbers, is linked to an increased likelihood of developing melanoma.

When it comes on and in what position narrows the cause far faster than the sensation itself ever does.