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Pronunciation: /ˌɑbzərˈveɪʃən/

observation

Definition

In medicine, watching a patient’s condition but not giving treatment unless symptoms appear or change.

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regional chemotherapy

affected individual

irofulven

orphan drug designation

clinical diagnosis

warm ischemia time

islet of Langerhans cell

sorrel

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expanded cord blood stem cells mixed with engineered human endothelial cells AB-110

autologous Epstein-Barr virus-specific cytotoxic T lymphocytes

gene-modified HIV-protected hematopoietic stem cells

anti-GITR agonistic monoclonal antibody MS-986156

autologous anti-CD19CAR-CD3zeta-4-1BB-IL-15-PD1-expressing tri-functional T lymphocytes

Maxipime

lymphokine-activated killer cells

Colprosterone

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TDR

GWAS

new mutation

logarithm of the odds score

carrier

third-degree relative

positive predictive value

skin tag

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