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Pronunciation: /peritoneum*/

peritoneum

Definition

The tissue that lines the abdominal wall and covers most of the organs in the abdomen.

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carboplatin-Taxol

rachitis

HER2 test

MDL 101,731

carotenoid

complete metastasectomy

Caprelsa

hospitalist

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neoantigen-encoding personalized virus-2

recombinant bovine basic fibroblast growth factor

lanreotide acetate copolymer microparticles

BetaMarc

vatalanib

total tumor RNA-loaded dendritic cell vaccine

autologous polyclonal tumor infiltrating lymphocytes LYL845

autologous anti-CD19 CAR-expressing T lymphocytes UF-KURE19

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VUS

somatic mutation

next-generation sequencing

MGPT

heterozygous genotype

MSI

copy number variant

triple-negative breast cancer

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