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Pronunciation: /melanocyte*/

melanocyte

Definition

A cell in the skin and eyes that produces and contains the pigment called melanin.

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soya

barium-meal photofluorography

intracolonic

Campath

surgery

stereotactic external-beam radiation therapy

FK463

multiple endocrine adenomatosis

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Carbocaine

gemcitabine-releasing intravesical system

Vaso-Pav

oncolytic HSV-1-expressing IL-12 and anti-PD-1 antibody T3011

Progenta

5-HT3 receptor antagonist

Norvir

anti-PD-1/LAG-3 bispecific antibody AK129

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skin tag

nonsense variant

frameshift variant

linkage analysis

somatic variant

hemizygous

family cancer syndrome

pseudogene

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