(medicine) the treatment of disease (especially cancer) by exposure to a radioactive substance
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Kaposi's sarcoma
a sarcoma that starts with purplish spots on the feet and legs and spreads from the skin to lymph nodes and internal organs; a common manifestation of AIDS; "until 1980 Kaposi's sarcoma occurred almost exclusively with Jewish or Italian or black men"
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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.any malignant tumor derived from epithelial tissue; one of the four major types of cancer
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Used in the same subject area: Medicine and healthcare, Oncology.(medicine) the treatment of disease (especially cancer) by exposure to a radioactive substance
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Used in the same subject area: Medicine and healthcare, Oncology.a neoplasm of lymph tissue that is usually malignant; one of the four major types of cancer
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One of certain animals that have no feet or footlike organs; esp. one of certain fabulous birds which were said to have no feet.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: sarcoma, starts, purplish, spots, feet.To mark with spots, or as with spots.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: sarcoma, starts, purplish, spots, feet.the organs and tissues involved in circulating blood and lymph through the body
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: sarcoma, starts, purplish, spots, feet.the organs and tissues involved in circulating blood and lymph through the body
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: sarcoma, starts, purplish, spots, feet.A solid measure, equivalent to 128 cubic feet; a pile of wood, or other coarse material, eight feet long, four feet high, and four fee…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: sarcoma, starts, purplish, spots, feet.A particular leap of a horse, when he raises both his fore legs at once, equally advanced, and, as his fore legs are falling, raises h…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: sarcoma, starts, purplish, spots, feet.Containing cysts; cystose; as, cystic sarcoma.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: sarcoma, starts, purplish, spots, feet.The gradual formation or production of organs or parts by a process of evolution or development, as when the seed develops the root an…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: sarcoma, starts, purplish, spots, feet.An extensive order of insects having only two functional wings and two balancers, as the house fly, mosquito, etc. They have a suctori…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: sarcoma, starts, purplish, spots, feet.St. Anthony's fire; a febrile disease accompanied with a diffused inflammation of the skin, which, starting usually from a single poin…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: sarcoma, starts, purplish, spots, feet.Groups of small shining spots on the surface of the sun which are brighter than the other parts of the photosphere. They are generally…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: sarcoma, starts, purplish, spots, feet.That part of a plant destined to produce seed, and hence including one or both of the sexual organs; an organ or combination of the or…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: sarcoma, starts, purplish, spots, feet.An African ruminant (Camelopardalis giraffa) related to the deers and antelopes, but placed in a family by itself; the camelopard. It…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: sarcoma, starts, purplish, spots, feet.A constitutional disease, occurring by paroxysms. It consists in an inflammation of the fibrous and ligamentous parts of the joints, a…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: sarcoma, starts, purplish, spots, feet.Any one of numerous species of jumping marsupials of the family Macropodidae. They inhabit Australia, New Guinea, and adjacent islands…
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