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Pronunciation: /trephine*/

trephine

Definition

A surgical tool used to cut out circular pieces of bone or other tissue.

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benzoylphenylurea

Swyer syndrome

stage I adult soft tissue sarcoma of the trunk, arms, and legs

gluconeogenesis

QNBC

colposcopy

allogeneic

machine learning

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Velcade

efanesoctocog alfa

PD-1-directed probody CX-188

gallium Ga 68-edotreotide

Ambien

serine protease inhibitor WX-671

Xylocaine

recombinant vesicular stomatitis virus-expressing interferon-beta and tyrosinase-related protein 1

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fibrofolliculoma

insertion

band

NGS

linkage

hereditary cancer syndrome

false-positive result

predisposing mutation

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