(medicine) the treatment of disease (especially cancer) by exposure to a radioactive substance
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Leiomyosarcoma
sarcoma of smooth muscle; occurs most often digestive tract or uterus or bladder or prostate
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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.examination of tissues or liquids from the living body to determine the existence or cause of a disease
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.any malignant tumor derived from epithelial tissue; one of the four major types of 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.the branch of biology that studies the microscopic structure of animal or plant tissues
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.a neoplasm of lymph tissue that is usually malignant; one of the four major types of cancer
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a condition in which little or no bile is secreted or the flow of bile into the digestive tract is obstructed
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: sarcoma, smooth, muscle, occurs, digestive.enlarged prostate; appears to be part of the natural aging process
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: sarcoma, smooth, muscle, occurs, digestive.A bag or sac in animals, which serves as the receptacle of some fluid; as, the urinary bladder; the gall bladder; -- applied especiall…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: sarcoma, smooth, muscle, occurs, digestive.early stage of an embryo produced by cleavage of an ovum; a liquid-filled sphere whose wall is composed of a single layer of cells; du…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: sarcoma, smooth, muscle, occurs, digestive.early stage of an embryo produced by cleavage of an ovum; a liquid-filled sphere whose wall is composed of a single layer of cells; du…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: sarcoma, smooth, muscle, occurs, digestive.enlarged prostate; appears to be part of the natural aging process
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: sarcoma, smooth, muscle, occurs, digestive.A peninsula; a tract of land nearly surrounded by water, but united to a larger tract by a neck of land or isthmus; as, the Cimbric Ch…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: sarcoma, smooth, muscle, occurs, digestive.One of several diseases affecting the digestive and intestinal tract and more or less dangerous to life, esp. the one commonly called…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: sarcoma, smooth, muscle, occurs, digestive.(zoology) the cavity (in birds, reptiles, amphibians, most fish, and monotremes but not other mammals) at the end of the digestive tra…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: sarcoma, smooth, muscle, occurs, digestive.In old authors, the urinary bladder, or the gall bladder.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: sarcoma, smooth, muscle, occurs, digestive.Pertaining to, or contained in, a cyst; esp., pertaining to, or contained in, either the urinary bladder or the gall bladder.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: sarcoma, smooth, muscle, occurs, digestive.The part of the small intestines between the stomach and the jejunum. See Illust. of Digestive apparatus, under Digestive.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: sarcoma, smooth, muscle, occurs, digestive.(pregnancy) the mucous membrane that lines the uterus; thickens under hormonal control and (if pregnancy does not occur) is shed in me…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: sarcoma, smooth, muscle, occurs, digestive.A perivisceral cavity which arises as an outgrowth or outgrowths from the digestive tract; distinguished from a schizocoele, which ari…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: sarcoma, smooth, muscle, occurs, digestive.That part of the alimentary canal between the pharynx and the stomach; the gullet. See Illust. of Digestive apparatus, under Digestive.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: sarcoma, smooth, muscle, occurs, digestive.
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