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Pronunciation: /oophorectomy*/

oophorectomy

Definition

Surgery to remove one or both ovaries.

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neuromuscular electrical stimulation

ginseng

thyroid-stimulating hormone

crizotinib

cryobanking

corticosteroid

preventive

radical retropubic prostatectomy

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KRAS mutant inhibitor QTX3034

didanosine

lyso-thermosensitive liposomal doxorubicin

Polo-like kinase 1 inhibitor GSK-461364

Yescarta

varlitinib

alpha fetoprotein adenoviral vector vaccine

therapeutic autologous lymphocytes

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linkage

chromosome

linkage analysis

de novo variant

multiplex ligation-dependent probe amplification

TNBC

null allele

double heterozygosity

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