General Medical Terms

A form of thyroid-stimulating hormone (TSH) that is made in the laboratory.

A medical doctor who specializes in thyroid diseases.

A form of thyroid-stimulating hormone (TSH) that is made in the laboratory.

The tibia is the larger, weight bearing bone of the lower leg, forming the knee joint above and the ankle joint below.

A measure of time after a disease is diagnosed (or treated) until the disease starts to get worse.

A substance that is being studied in the treatment of acute myeloid leukemia (AML) and other types of cancer.

Tissue is a group of similar cells and their surrounding material organized together to carry out a shared function within the body.

A type of breast reconstruction in which a flap of tissue is surgically moved from another area of the body to the chest, and formed into a new breast mound.

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

Toluene is a strong smelling industrial solvent whose vapors are toxic to the nervous system and other organs with significant exposure.

Tomography is the general technique of producing cross sectional images of the body's interior, applied across several different imaging technologies.

Tonsil most often refers to the palatine tonsils, paired lymphoid masses at the back of the mouth that help screen inhaled and swallowed material.

A topical medication is applied directly to the skin or another body surface to act at that location rather than throughout the body.

A substance that blocks topoisomerases (enzymes that break and rejoin DNA strands and are needed for cells to divide and grow).

A monoclonal antibody that is used in the treatment of certain types of non-Hodgkin lymphoma.

Therapy used to eliminate male sex hormones (androgens) in the body.

Therapy used to eliminate estrogen in the body.

Radiation therapy to the mantle field, the spleen, the lymph nodes in the upper abdomen, and the lymph nodes in the pelvic area.

The total amount of prostate-specific antigen (PSA) in the blood.

Radiation therapy to the entire body.