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A product from a plant of Asian origin that produces beans used in many food products. Soya contains isoflavones (estrogen-like substances) that are being studied for the prevention of cancer, hot flashes that occur with menopause, and osteoporosis (loss of bone density). Soya in the diet may lower cholesterol levels and reduce the risk of heart disease. Also called Glycine max, soy, and soybean.
Industry:Health care
An inability to have an erection of the penis adequate for sexual intercourse. Also called impotence.
Industry:Health care
An inherited condition in which numerous polyps (growths that protrude from mucous membranes) form on the inside walls of the colon and rectum. It increases the risk of colorectal cancer. Also called familial adenomatous polyposis and FAP.
Industry:Health care
A record of the relationships among family members along with their medical histories. This includes current and past illnesses. A family medical history may show a pattern of certain diseases in a family. Also called family history.
Industry:Health care
A situation or condition, or a characteristic of a patient, that can be used to estimate the chance of recovery from a disease or the chance of the disease recurring (coming back).
Industry:Health care
An abnormal collection of fluid inside the sac that covers the heart.
Industry:Health care
In medicine, the course of a disease, such as cancer, as it becomes worse or spreads in the body.
Industry:Health care
The male reproductive cell, formed in the testicle. A sperm unites with an egg to form an embryo.
Industry:Health care
Tough, fibrous, cord-like tissue that connects muscle to bone or another structure, such as an eyeball. Tendons help the bone or structure to move.
Industry:Health care
A group of slow growing blood cancers, including chronic myelogenous leukemia, in which large numbers of abnormal red blood cells, white blood cells, or platelets grow and spread in the bone marrow and the peripheral blood.
Industry:Health care
