General Medical Terms

The length of time after treatment for a specific disease during which a patient survives with no sign of the disease.

A mental state marked by confusion about time, place, or who one is.

Disseminate means to spread widely, describing how a disease process, infection, or information extends beyond its original, limited location.

In medicine, refers to a part of the body that is farther away from the center of the body than another part.

Refers to cancer that has spread from the original (primary) tumor to distant organs or distant lymph nodes.

Distraction most often names a technique that shifts attention away from pain, though the term also describes the surgical separation of bone or joint surfaces.

A diverticulum is a small pouch that bulges outward from the wall of a hollow organ such as the colon.

A type of advance directive in which a person states that healthcare providers should not perform cardiopulmonary resuscitation (restarting the heart) if his or her heart or breathing stops.

A type of advance directive in which a person states that healthcare providers should not perform cardiopulmonary resuscitation (restarting the heart) if his or her heart or breathing stops.

A measured amount of a medicine or therapeutic agent given at one time or over an interval.

The strength of a treatment given over a period of time.

A dosimetrist calculates and plans radiation dose distributions for cancer treatment, working alongside radiation oncologists and medical physicists to protect healthy tissue.

Radiation dose is measured and calculated through dosimetry, a process used in treatment planning as well as monitoring occupational and environmental exposure.

The word durable is what matters here: this authority keeps working at the point when the person can no longer decide.

Belongs to a group of antihormone drugs.

In medicine, a drain is a tube or wick placed to remove fluid from a wound, surgical site, or body cavity as it accumulates.

The use of illegal drugs or the use of prescription or over-the-counter drugs for purposes other than those for which they are meant to be used, or in large amounts.

Sexual climax without the release of semen from the penis.

Data and Safety Monitoring Board.

A method used to collect cells from milk ducts in the breast.