Medical terms A–Z

A plant whose leaves, stems, and flowers have been used in some cultures to treat certain medical problems.

The injury of a joint pushed past its range, damaging the bands that hold one bone to the next.

Sprycel is the brand name for dasatinib, a targeted drug used to treat certain leukemias driven by an abnormal fusion protein.

Mucus and other matter brought up from the lungs by coughing.

Examination under a microscope of cells found in sputum (mucus and other matter brought up from the lungs by coughing).

A drug that belongs to the family of drugs called angiogenesis inhibitors.

Squamous cells are flat, scale like cells that form the surface layer of skin and the lining of many internal passages.

One name across many organs, united by the flat lining cell the cancer starts from rather than by where it is found.

This term names abnormal squamous cell changes on the cervix, graded as low or high grade depending on severity and extent.

A drug that may protect healthy tissue from the toxic effects of anticancer drugs.

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

A substance being studied in the treatment of cancer.

Three letters for an antimony compound whose established job is a parasitic infection, not the cancer research the abbreviation is usually filed under.

The word selective refers to serotonin alone, which is what separates this class from antidepressants acting on several messengers at once.

A plant whose leaves, stems, and flowers have been used in some cultures to treat certain medical problems.

A yellow-flowered plant sold as a supplement, best known in medicine for how strongly it interferes with other drugs.

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

Cancer that is neither decreasing nor increasing in extent or severity.

Abnormal cells are found in the cervical epithelium (the innermost lining of the cervix).

Abnormal melanocytes (cells that make melanin, the pigment that gives skin its color) are found in the epidermis (outer layer of the skin).