General Medical Terms

Supporting tissue that surrounds other tissues and organs.

A program of the National Institutes of Health to bring together an independent group of experts to review scientific evidence related to an important public health issue.

Contiguous structures or areas of tissue are directly touching or immediately adjacent, without any gap or intervening structure between them.

A pouch formed from a piece of small intestine to hold urine after the bladder has been removed.

The mirror image of an indication: a specific reason in this particular person for not doing what would otherwise be the right thing.

Contralateral describes a structure, finding, or effect located on the side of the body opposite to the one being discussed.

A series of x-ray pictures of the esophagus taken after a patient drinks a liquid containing barium sulfate (a form of the silver-white metallic element barium).

A dye or other substance that helps show abnormal areas inside the body.

A system in which medical doctors and other healthcare professionals (such as nurses, pharmacists, and therapists) treat symptoms and diseases using drugs, radiation, or surgery.

Cope describes the process of managing the emotional, physical, or practical demands created by illness, stress, or a difficult situation.

Surgery in which a healthy blood vessel taken from another part of the body is used to make a new path for blood around a blocked artery leading to the heart.

In anatomy, corpus names the main body of an organ or structure, setting it apart from a neck, head, or other named part.

An estrogen-like substance (phytoestrogen) made by some plants.

A type of coumestan.

An abbreviation for a chemotherapy combination used to treat chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL).

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

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

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

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

Pierced with small holes as in a sieve.