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The organs of the body that produce and discharge urine. These include the kidneys, ureters, bladder, and urethra.
Industry:Health care
Surgery to remove all or part of the bladder (the organ that holds urine) or to remove a cyst (a sac or capsule in the body).
Industry:Health care
An inherited form of medullary thyroid cancer (cancer that forms in the cells of the thyroid that make the hormone calcitonin).
Industry:Health care
A unit of weight in the metric system. One gram is equal to one thousandth of a kilogram and is approximately 30-times less than an ounce.
Industry:Health care
A technique used to cause an immune response that results in resistance to a specific disease, especially an infectious disease.
Industry:Health care
A substance that is being studied as a treatment for cancer. It belongs to the family of drugs called antifolates.
Industry:Health care
A group of symptoms such as gas, bloating, abdominal pain, and diarrhea resulting from the body's inability to properly absorb nutrients.
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Refers to myeloblasts (a type of immature cell that forms in the bone marrow).
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