Medical terms beginning with N

A smaller number means a stronger compound, since less of it is needed to produce the same effect.

Electrical pulses that make a muscle work when the brain's own signal is too weak or cannot get through.

Cancer that has not spread to the lymph nodes.

Cancer that has spread to the lymph nodes.

A small mass of tissue within a gland or organ that carries out the specialized functions of the gland or organ.

Most are found by accident on imaging ordered for something else entirely, and most of those turn out to mean nothing at all.

A substance that is being studied in the treatment of liver cancer.

A mathematical device or model that shows relationships between things.

Named for what it is not, this family of lymphocyte cancers spans many separate diseases with very different growth rates and outlooks.

A group of lung cancers that are named for the kinds of cells found in the cancer and how the cells look under a microscope.

Describes a clinical trial or other experiment in which the researchers know what treatments are being given to each study subject or experimental group.

A clinical study that includes some, but not all, of the eligible patients identified by the researchers during the study registration period.

Lymphoma in which the lymph nodes containing cancer are not next to each other, but are on the same side of the diaphragm (the thin muscle below the lungs that helps breathing and separates the…

A tumor that is found in endocrine tissue but does not make extra hormones.

Cancer that does not begin in the blood or bone marrow.

Morinda citrifolia.

In medicine, it describes a procedure that does not require inserting an instrument through the skin or into a body opening.

In biology, refers to viruses that do not kill infected cells by disrupting their plasma membranes.

Not cancerous.

A disorder of the blood.