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Pronunciation: /resection*/

resection

Definition

Surgery to remove tissue or part or all of an organ.

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coactivated T cell

afib

perihilar bile duct cancer

conventional treatment

ICD

sigmoidoscopy

intraductal papilloma

astrocytoma

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ROS1/TRK/ALK inhibitor TY-2136b

antibody-drug conjugate anti-TIM-1-vcMMAE CDX-014

P-cadherin-targeting agent PF-06671008

5-fluoropyrimidinone

Chinese herbal medicine YQ1

synthetic glioblastoma mutated tumor-specific peptides vaccine therapy APVAC2

Globo H-DT vaccine OBI-833

MAGE-12 peptide vaccine

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phenocopy

multigene panel test

nucleotide

loss of heterozygosity

incomplete penetrance

founder variant

cosegregation

polymerase chain reaction

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