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Pronunciation: /thrombectomy*/

thrombectomy

Definition

Surgery to remove a thrombus (blood clot) from a blood vessel.

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nuclear medicine scan

stage III renal cell cancer

eltrombopag olamine

mouse model

gene transfer

Ménétrier disease

sorivudine

simple vulvectomy

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fianlimab

therapeutic estetrol

adenovirus-expressing TLR5/TLR5 agonist nanoformulation M-VM3

ladarixin sodium

anti-HER2/HER2 bispecific ADC KM501

FGF401 inhibitor FGF401

TNFalpha/IL-2-encoding oncolytic adenovirus TILT-123

autologous ovarian cancer-specific cytotoxic T lymphocytes

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VUS

first-degree relative

locus heterogeneity

facies

base pair

congenital

somatic variant

disease-causing mutation

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