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Pronunciation: /dɪˈstrækʃən/

distraction

Definition

In medicine, a pain relief method that takes the patient’s attention away from the pain.

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pineal organ

complete blood count

pineal body

scar tissue

anthracenedione

sensor

capecitabine

melanoma-astrocytoma syndrome

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firastotug

Trimethoprim-Sulfamethoxazole

membrane-bound interleukin-21-expanded haploidentical natural killer cells

MAGE-10.A2

interleukin-2 gene

anti LAG-3 monoclonal antibody HLX26

Ad5-yCD/mutTKSR39rep-hIL12

synthetic plumbagin PCUR-101

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carrier

chromosomal instability

new variant

polygenic risk score

massively parallel sequencing

first-degree relative

heteroduplex analysis

codon

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