(medicine) the treatment of disease (especially cancer) by exposure to a radioactive substance
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Chondrosarcoma
a malignant neoplasm of cartilage cells
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the formation of new blood vessels
Used in the same subject area: Medicine and healthcare, Oncology.a type of cell death in which the cell uses specialized cellular machinery to kill itself; a cell suicide mechanism that enables metaz…
Used in the same subject area: Medicine and healthcare, Oncology.A sample of tissue taken from the body for diagnostic examination.
Used in the same subject area: Medicine and healthcare, Oncology.malignant neoplasm of blood-forming tissues; characterized by abnormal proliferation of leukocytes; one of the four major types of can…
Used in the same subject area: Medicine and healthcare, Oncology.any substance that produces cancer
Used in the same subject area: Medicine and healthcare, Oncology.A cancer. By some medical writers, the term is applied to an indolent tumor. See Cancer.
Used in the same subject area: Medicine and healthcare, Oncology.a type of cell death in which the cell uses specialized cellular machinery to kill itself; a cell suicide mechanism that enables metaz…
Used in the same subject area: Medicine and healthcare, Oncology.the use of chemical agents to treat or control disease (or mental illness)
Used in the same subject area: Medicine and healthcare, Oncology.the branch of biology that studies the structure and function of cells
Used in the same subject area: Medicine and healthcare, Oncology.That branch of biological science, which treats of the minute (microscopic) structure of animal and vegetable tissues; -- called also…
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Used in the same subject area: Medicine and healthcare, Oncology.malignant neoplasm of blood-forming tissues; characterized by abnormal proliferation of leukocytes; one of the four major types of can…
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Used in the same subject area: Medicine and healthcare, Oncology.A type of cancer that affects the blood and bone marrow.
Used in the same subject area: Medicine and healthcare, Oncology.A tumor having a structure resembling that of a lymphatic gland; -- called also lymphadenoma.
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a neoplasm originating in the epidermis
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: malignant, neoplasm, cartilage, cells.loss of structural differentiation within a cell or group of cells often with increased capacity for multiplication, as in a malignant…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: malignant, neoplasm, cartilage, cells.nuclear transplantation of a patient's own cells to make an oocyte from which immune-compatible cells (especially stem cells) can be d…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: malignant, neoplasm, cartilage, cells.A genus of decapod Crustacea, including some of the most common shore crabs of Europe and North America, as the rock crab, Jonah crab,…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: malignant, neoplasm, cartilage, cells.a cluster of malignant cells that has not yet invaded the deeper epithelial tissue or spread to other parts of the body
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: malignant, neoplasm, cartilage, cells.Of or pertaining to cartilage; gristly; firm and tough like cartilage.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: malignant, neoplasm, cartilage, cells.T cell with CD4 receptor that recognizes antigens on the surface of a virus-infected cell and secretes lymphokines that stimulate B ce…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: malignant, neoplasm, cartilage, cells.T cell with CD4 receptor that recognizes antigens on the surface of a virus-infected cell and secretes lymphokines that stimulate B ce…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: malignant, neoplasm, cartilage, cells.malignant neoplasm of the testis
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: malignant, neoplasm, cartilage, cells.A malignant growth containing epithelial cells; -- called also epithelial cancer.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: malignant, neoplasm, cartilage, cells.a malignant neoplasm of blood-forming tissues; marked by proliferation of myelocytes and their presence in the blood
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: malignant, neoplasm, cartilage, cells.Cartilage. See Cartilage.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: malignant, neoplasm, cartilage, cells.a focal growth that resembles a neoplasm but results from faulty development in an organ
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: malignant, neoplasm, cartilage, cells.T cell with CD4 receptor that recognizes antigens on the surface of a virus-infected cell and secretes lymphokines that stimulate B ce…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: malignant, neoplasm, cartilage, cells.T cell with CD4 receptor that recognizes antigens on the surface of a virus-infected cell and secretes lymphokines that stimulate B ce…
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