Medical terms A–Z

An animal with a disease either the same as or like a disease in humans.

A laboratory experiment using animals to study the development and progression of diseases.

A type of therapy that uses dogs or other pets to improve the physical and mental health of patients with certain acute or chronic diseases.

An aggressive (fast-growing) disease in which too many myeloblasts (immature white blood cells that are not lymphoblasts) are found in the bone marrow and blood.

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

An abnormal loss of the appetite for food.

The part of the nervous system that controls muscles of internal organs (such as the heart, blood vessels, lungs, stomach, and intestines) and glands (such as salivary glands and sweat glands).

An anticancer drug that belongs to the family of drugs called antineoplastic antibiotics.

In medicine, a substance that stops the action or effect of another substance.

Situated toward the front of the body or a body structure.

A procedure in which a tube is inserted into the chest to view the tissues and organs in the area between the lungs and between the breastbone and heart.

The area in the front part of the chest between the lungs.

Surgery to remove the urethra, lower part of the ureters, uterus, cervix, vagina, and bladder.

A disease in which malignant (cancer) cells are found in the part of the urethra (the tube through which urine leaves the body) that is closest to the outside of the body.

An anticancer drug that belongs to the family of drugs called anticancer antibiotics.

A type of antibiotic that comes from certain types of Streptomyces bacteria.

A type of anticancer drug.

A monoclonal antibody linked to a toxic substance.

A substance being studied in the treatment of certain types of head and neck cancer.

A vaccine made of antibodies that see other antibodies as the antigen and bind to it.