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United States Department of Health and Human Services, Radiation Emergency Medical Management
Başlar, dil kanseri. Kanser açık üçte iki içinde dil başladığında, ağız boşluğu kanseri türü olarak kabul edilir; Kanser dilin arka üçüncü başladığında, bu oropharyngeal bir tür olarak kabul veya gırtlak kanseri.
Industry:Health care
A type of immune cell that is made in the bone marrow and travels through the blood to tissues in the body where it becomes a macrophage. Macrophages surround and kill microorganisms, ingest foreign material, remove dead cells, and boost immune responses. A monocyte is a type of white blood cell and a type of phagocyte.
Industry:Health care
In medicine, a process to restore mental and/or physical abilities lost to injury or disease, in order to function in a normal or near-normal way.
Industry:Health care
An area of the brain that helps process information from the senses and transmit it to other parts of the brain.
Industry:Health care
A break on the skin, in the lining of an organ, or on the surface of a tissue. An ulcer forms when the surface cells become inflamed, die, and are shed. Ulcers may be linked to cancer and other diseases.
Industry:Health care
Surgery in which a healthy blood vessel taken from another part of the body is used to make a new path for blood around a blocked artery leading to the heart. This restores the flow of oxygen and nutrients to the heart. Also called aortocoronary bypass and CAB.
Industry:Health care
Surgery to remove the uterus and, sometimes, the cervix. When the uterus and the cervix are removed, it is called a total hysterectomy. When only the uterus is removed, it is called a partial hysterectomy.
Industry:Health care
A molecule that can join with other identical monomers to form a larger structure called a polymer.
Industry:Health care
An anxiety disorder in which a person has intrusive ideas, thoughts, or images that occur repeatedly, and in which he or she feels driven to perform certain behaviors over and over again. For example, a person may worry all the time about germs and so will wash his or her hands over and over again. Having an obsessive-compulsive disorder may cause a person to have trouble carrying out daily activities.
Industry:Health care
