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United States Department of Health and Human Services, Radiation Emergency Medical Management
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 substance being studied in the treatment of cancer. Ispinesib blocks a protein that tumor cells need to divide. It is a type of mitotic inhibitor. Also called SB-715992.
Industry:Health care
A drug used to decrease swelling of the brain and to treat kidney failure. Mannitol can also be used to open the blood-brain barrier, which allows anticancer medicines to enter the brain and treat brain tumors.
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
Having to do with the father, coming from the father, or related through the father.
Industry:Health care
A term used to describe a condition that may (or is likely to) become cancer. Also called premalignant.
Industry:Health care
A healthcare professional who helps people recover from an illness or injury and return to daily life. Examples of rehabilitation specialists are physical therapists and occupational therapists.
Industry:Health care
A test for an immune response to a compound by placing it on or under the skin.
Industry:Health care
A drug used to improve breathing in people who are short of breath. It belongs to the family of drugs called bronchodilators or respiratory smooth muscle relaxants.
Industry:Health care
