(medicine) the treatment of disease (especially cancer) by exposure to a radioactive substance
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the branch of biology that studies the structure and function of 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.That branch of biological science, which treats of the minute (microscopic) structure of animal and vegetable tissues; -- called also…
Used in the same subject area: Medicine and healthcare, Oncology.therapy designed to produce immunity to a disease or to enhance resistance by the immune system
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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…
Used in the same subject area: Medicine and healthcare, Oncology.Leucocythaemia.
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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Used in the same subject area: Medicine and healthcare, Oncology.A spiritual change, as during baptism.
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Relationship by marriage (as between a husband and his wife's blood relations, or between a wife and her husband's blood relations); -…
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Its definition shares important concepts with this word: branch, biology, studies, structure, function.the branch of astrophysics that studies the origin and evolution and structure of the universe
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