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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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PARP-1

dinutuximab

focal

sedoxantrone trihydrochloride

peripheral blood lymphocyte therapy

semustine

monoclonal antibody

yttrium Y 90-epratuzumab tetraxetan

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methoxsalen

pertuzumab

hyperpolarized carbon 13 alpha-ketoglutarate

Noxafil

Traumeel S

CD33-specific CAR lentiviral vector-transduced allogeneic T lymphocytes

autologous anti-B7-H3 CAR-iC9-expressing T lymphocytes

fluorine F 18 W372

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SNV

variant of unknown significance

massively parallel sequencing

genetic predisposition

heterogeneity logarithm of the odds score

hemizygous

variant

splice-site variant

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