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Pronunciation: /ˈpælɪt/

palate

Definition

The roof of the mouth. The front portion is bony (hard palate), and the back portion is muscular (soft palate).

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hereditary leiomyomatosis and renal cell cancer syndrome

solar keratosis

ovarian suppression

LDH

mechanism of action

Tarceva

intensive chemotherapy

core needle biopsy

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autologous anti-B7-H3 CAR retroviral vector-transduced T cells

iodine I 124 monoclonal antibody M5A

bemiparin sodium

secretin

grapiprant

autologous anti-CEA CAR/HLA-A*02-gated inhibitory receptor/B2M shRNA-expressing T lymphocytes A2B530

caplacizumab-yhdp

PSA-PAP/KLH-pulsed autologous dendritic cell vaccine

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familial

inherited predisposition

LOH

massively parallel sequencing

single nucleotide variant

noncarrier

polymorphism

synchronous cancer

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