Glossary index
Medical terms beginning with F
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123 medical terms in this glossary begin with the letter F, from fosaprepitant dimeglumine onward. Every entry gives a plain-language definition, and most add a pronunciation, the word parts it is built from, and related terms.
This is also the place to look for medical words, health words, anatomy terms and disease names starting with F.
F terms
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A drug used together with other drugs to prevent and control nausea and vomiting caused by cancer treatment.
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A drug used to treat infections with herpesviruses in people whose immune systems are weakened by AIDS.
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A drug used to treat infections with herpesviruses in people whose immune systems are weakened by AIDS.
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A substance being studied in the treatment of cancer.
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Dividing the total dose of radiation therapy into several smaller, equal doses delivered over a period of several days.
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A break and a fracture are the same event, and the choice of word reflects vocabulary rather than how serious the injury is.
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Fragrance is a pleasant scent, often from added compounds in personal care products, that can act as an irritant for sensitive individuals.
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The amount of the protein prostate-specific antigen (PSA) in the blood that is not attached to other proteins.
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A highly reactive chemical that often contains oxygen and is produced when molecules are split to give products that have unpaired electrons (a process called oxidation).
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Freeze-dried describes a substance preserved by freezing it and then removing its moisture through vacuum drying.
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The air space behind the eyebrows that nobody is born with, and the one whose shape is distinctive enough to identify a person.
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One of a group of substances that are found in several types of fruit and in milk.
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A pituitary hormone that tells the ovaries to ripen an egg and the testicles to keep making sperm.
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A substance being studied in the treatment of some types of cancer.
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An abbreviation for a chemotherapy combination used with other types of therapy to treat colorectal cancer.
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A procedure to destroy tissue (such as a tumor) using an electric current.
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A tumor that is found in endocrine tissue and makes hormones (chemicals that travel in the bloodstream and control the actions of other cells or organs).
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The fundus is the rounded base of a hollow organ farthest from its opening, a landmark used to describe findings in organs from the stomach to the eye.
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A type of skin lesion that is marked by ulcerations (breaks on the skin or surface of an organ) and necrosis (death of living tissue) and that usually has a bad smell.
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Any substance used to kill fungi (plant-like organisms that do not make chlorophyll), such as yeast and molds.
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Closer relatives of animals than of plants, and wrapped in a cell wall humans have no equivalent of, which is what antifungal drugs exploit.
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A gene made by joining parts of two different genes.
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A protein made from a fusion gene, which is created by joining parts of two different genes.