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Pronunciation: /trephine*/

trephine

Definition

A surgical tool used to cut out circular pieces of bone or other tissue.

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Mohs surgery

benign

L-arginine

EPT

regulatory T cell

lymphoblastic

stage 0 gastric cancer (carcinoma in situ)

ETS

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Creon

anti-CD19/CD3 BiTE antibody AMG 562

type-1 polarized dendritic cell-induced antigen-specific autologous cytotoxic T lymphocytes

anti-HER3 dendritic cell vaccine

anti-CLDN18.2 heavy chain antibody Fc fusion protein DR30303

tositumomab

cisplatin nano-engineered intraoperative system PRV211

interferon beta-secreting mesenchymal stem cells

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facies

cytogenetics

novel mutation

nonsense mutation

point mutation

somatic mutation

constitutional DNA

variable expressivity

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