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Pronunciation: /wɛʤ resection*/

wedge resection

Definition

Surgery to remove a triangle-shaped slice of tissue. It may be used to remove a tumor and a small amount of normal tissue around it.

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stage II lip and oral cavity cancer

foscarnet sodium

alteration

FOBT

virus-neutralizing antibody

calcium channel blocker

stage IV vaginal cancer

Kassebaum Kennedy Act

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Citroma

IRDye800-labeled heterodimeric peptide KSP-QRH 919288G

ovarian tumor antigen-activated autologous dendritic cell vaccine

monoclonal antibody NEO-201

nab-paclitaxel/rituximab-coated nanoparticle AR160

taletrectinib adipate

oncolytic HSV-1 rRp450

CD22 immunotoxin

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genotyping

linkage disequilibrium

MGPT

SNV

pseudogene

pathogenic variant

heterogeneity logarithm of the odds score

genetic susceptibility

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