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Pronunciation: /əbˈzɔrpʃən/

absorption

Definition

The process of taking nutrients from the digestive system into the blood so they can be used in the body.

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Dukes classification

nutrition

myasthenia gravis

CBC

hysterectomy

dyscrasia

natural killer-cell large granular lymphocyte leukemia

vocal cord

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therapeutic epinephrine

IL-34 inhibitor

PD-L1 inhibitor ABSK043

indium In 111 anti-EGFR monoclonal antibody ABT-806

pemetrexed disodium

choline kinase alpha inhibitor TCD-717

Cobavite

autologous dinitrophenyl-modified ovarian cancer vaccine

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clinical utility

variable expressivity

somatic variant

palmar pit

germline mosaicism

genome-wide association study

MLPA

mucosal neuroma

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