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Pronunciation: /ˈɑptɪˌmɪzəm/

optimism

Definition

The tendency to believe that there is good in everything and to have positive thoughts about most things that happen.

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ceremony

liposarcoma

isolated limb perfusion

luteinizing hormone

connexin gene

transurethral radiofrequency ablation

canertinib dihydrochloride

chlorine

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autologous GM-CSF-secreting lethally irradiated colorectal cancer cell vaccine

allogeneic iC9/CD19-CAR-CD28-zeta-2A-IL15-transduced cord blood-derived natural killer cells TAK-007

adenoviral-transduced hIL-12-expressing autologous dendritic cells INXN-3001 plus activator ligand INXN-1001

supersaturated calcium phosphate rinse

olinvacimab

timolol maleate

Provera

anti-CD47/anti-HER2 bispecific antibody IMM2902

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biallelic

triple-negative breast cancer

disease-causing mutation

chromosome

Southern blot

massively parallel sequencing

single nucleotide variant

Sanger sequencing

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