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United States Department of Health and Human Services, Radiation Emergency Medical Management
Radiation treatment aimed directly at a tumor during surgery. Also called IORT.
Industry:Health care
A drug used to treat high blood pressure. Losartan potassium blocks the action of chemicals that make blood vessels constrict (get narrower). It is a type of angiotensin II receptor antagonist. Also called Cozaar and losartan.
Industry:Health care
A substance the body needs in tiny amounts to grow and stay healthy. Examples are vitamins and minerals.
Industry:Health care
A mathematical device or model that shows relationships between things. For example, a nomogram of height and weight measurements can be used to find the surface area of a person, without doing the math, to determine the right dose of chemotherapy. Nomograms of patient and disease characteristics can help predict the outcome of some kinds of cancer.
Industry:Health care
Examination by pressing on the surface of the body to feel the organs or tissues underneath.
Industry:Health care
The space enclosed by the pleura, which is a thin layer of tissue that covers the lungs and lines the interior wall of the chest cavity.
Industry:Health care
The use of radiation (such as x-rays) or other imaging technologies (such as ultrasound and magnetic resonance imaging) to diagnose or treat disease.
Industry:Health care
In botany, a plant that gets food from a host but also contains chlorophyll and is capable of photosynthesis.
Industry:Health care
Radiation treatment in which the total dose of radiation is divided into small doses and treatments are given more than once a day. Also called hyperfractionated radiation therapy and hyperfractionation.
Industry:Health care
In medicine, the change that a normal cell undergoes as it becomes malignant.
Industry:Health care
