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Pronunciation: /tracheostomy*/

tracheostomy

Definition

Surgery to create an opening (stoma) into the windpipe. The opening itself may also be called a tracheostomy.

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total-body irradiation

intracellular

Indian valerian

Korean acupuncture

blood test

transgenic mice

spotted thistle

temozolomide

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recombinant tumor necrosis factor alpha-thymosin alpha 1 fusion protein

Krystexxa

autologous anti-DLL-3 CAR-T cells LB2102

technetium Tc-99m anti-HER2 affibody ABH2

anti-factor Bb monoclonal antibody NM8074

anti-TROP2 antibody-drug conjugate BIO-106

Stromagen

DNA plasmid vector pPRA-PSM vaccine

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tumor suppressor gene

epimutation

genomic imprinting

locus heterogeneity

trichilemmoma

germline mutation

exon

de novo variant

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