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Pronunciation: /silymarin*/

silymarin

Definition

A substance obtained from milk thistle seeds that is being studied in the prevention of liver damage caused by certain cancer treatments.

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colectomy

stage III childhood non-Hodgkin lymphoma

facial nerve

palpable disease

riboflavin

trastuzumab

positive axillary lymph node

IGF-1R inhibitor OSI-906

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Cyren A

Saccharomyces boulardii probiotic supplement

canarypox-hIL-12 melanoma vaccine

tubercidin

autologous anti-CS1 hinge-optimized CAR-4-1BB-EGFRt-expressing memory-enriched T cells

Mirvetuximab Soravtansine

anti-CD19 CAR-IL-18-expressing autologous T lymphocytes

Xerecept

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heteroduplex analysis

fibrofolliculoma

splice-site variant

familial

positive predictive value

cutaneous lichen amyloidosis

poikiloderma

de novo mutation

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