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palpation

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Pronunciation: /palpation*/

palpation

Definition

Examination by pressing on the surface of the body to feel the organs or tissues underneath.

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biochemical relapse

EGFR tyrosine kinase inhibitor

bursitis

response rate

BuMel regimen

meningeal syndrome

trastuzumab and hyaluronidase

MSI

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allogeneic CD8+ memory T cells

BTK inhibitor HMPL-760

anidulafungin

personalized neoantigen peptide vaccine iNeo-Vac-P01

PSMA/TARP peptide vaccine

alpha-1,3-galactosyltransferase-expressing allogeneic lung tumor cell vaccine

supinoxin

BayGam

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congenital

copy number variant

RNA splicing

affected individual

pedigree

whole genome sequencing

autosomal recessive inheritance

insertion

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