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Xerostomia
Dry Mouth or decreased production or lack of saliva.
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Vesicant
- 1. Blistering; causing or forming blisters.
- 2. An agent used to produce blisters. It is much less severe in its effects than are escharotics.
- 3. A blistering gas used in chemical warfare.
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An abnormal decrease in the number of platelets.
Thrombocytopenia
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Stomatitis
Inflammation of the mouth (including the lips, tongue, and mucous membranes).
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Palliation
The alleviation of some aspects of a disease, e.g., the reduction of the pain and suffering accompanying an illness.
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Any virus that causes malignant neoplasms.
Oncovirus
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The branch of medicine dealing with tumors.
Oncology
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Neutropenia
The presence of an abnormally small number of neutrophils in the blood, usually less than 1500 to 2000 per microliter. Severely low levels of neutrophils predispose patients to infection.
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Neoplasm
A new and abnormal formation of tissue, as a tumor or growth. It serves no useful function but grows at the expense of the healthy organism.
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Nadir
- 1. A low point in any measurement.
- The term is usually used for the low blood cell counts that occur after cancer chemotherapy.
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Mucositis
Inflammation of a mucous membrane.
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Metastasis
- 1. Movement of bacteria or body cells (esp. cancer cells) from one part of the body to another.
- 2. Change in location of a disease or of its manifestations or transfer from one organ or part to another not directly connected.
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Malignant
Growing worse; resisting treatment, said of cancerous growths. Tending or threatening to produce death; harmful.
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Leukopenia
Abnormal decrease of white blood cells usually below 5000/mm3
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In Situ
- 1. In position, localized.
- 2. In the normal place without disturbing or invading the surrounding tissue.
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Desquamation
- 1. Shedding of the epidermis.
- 2. The peeling skin characteristic of postmature infants.
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Cytotoxic
Destructive to cells.
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The inhibition of cell division caused by the close contact of similar cells, a natural brake in the healing of wounds.
Contact inhibition
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Drug therapy used, e.g., to treat infections, cancers, and other
diseases and conditions.
Chemotherapy
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Any substance or agent that produces cancer or increases the risk of
developing cancer in humans or animals.
Carcinogen
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Malignant neoplasia marked by the uncontrolled growth of cells, often
with invasion of healthy tissues locally or throughout the body.
Cancer
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A tissue sample removed from the body for microscopic examination,
usually to establish a diagnosis.
Biopsy
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Not recurrent or progressive, nonmalignant.
Benign
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Suppression of appetite, due to depression, malaise, onset of fevers and illnesses, disorders of the alimentary tract (stomach), alcoholism, drug addiction and Many medicines and medical procedures
Anorexia
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A reduction in the mass of circulating red blood cells.
Anemia
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Absence or loss of hair result from serious illness, drugs, endocrine disorders, certain forms of dermatitis, hereditary factors, radiation, or physiological changes as a part of the aging process.
Alopecia
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