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Pronunciation: /enucleation*/

enucleation

Definition

In medicine, the removal of an organ or tumor in such a way that it comes out clean and whole, like a nut from its shell.

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autoimmune paraneoplastic disease

epidermoid carcinoma

pacritinib citrate

pack year

stage II papillary and follicular thyroid cancer (55 years and older)

stage I nonmelanoma skin cancer on the head and neck (not on the eyelid)

seizure

live virus vaccine

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F-18 fluoroethyltyrosine

zirconium Zr 89-ss-pertuzumab

PRMT5 inhibitor TNG908

autologous HNSCC DNA-transfected semi-allogeneic fibroblasts MRC-5 vaccine

eflapegrastim

autologous IL-7/CCL19-expressing anti-GM2 CAR T cells NIB-101

lobaplatin

protein phosphatase 2A inhibitor LB-100

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Sanger sequencing

poikiloderma

positive predictive value

germline DNA

variant

hereditary predisposition

sumLOD score

nonsense variant

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