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United States Department of Health and Human Services, Radiation Emergency Medical Management
In medicine, a substance that stops the action or effect of another substance. For example, a drug that blocks the stimulating effect of estrogen on a tumor cell is called an estrogen receptor antagonist.
Industry:Health care
A member of a family of viruses that can cause infections in the respiratory tract, eye, and gastrointestinal tract. Forms of adenoviruses that do not cause disease are used in gene therapy. They carry genes that may fix defects in cells or kill cancer cells.
Industry:Health care
The soft, sponge-like tissue in the center of most bones. It produces white blood cells, red blood cells, and platelets.
Industry:Health care
An x-ray of the organs inside the abdomen. An x-ray is a type of radiation that can pass through the body and onto film, making pictures of areas inside the body. X-rays may be used to help diagnose disease.
Industry:Health care
Cancer that forms in a bile duct. A bile duct is a tube that carries bile (fluid made by the liver that helps digest fat) between the liver and gallbladder and the intestine. Bile ducts include the common hepatic, cystic, and common bile ducts. Bile duct cancer may be found inside the liver (intrahepatic) or outside the liver (extrahepatic).
Industry:Health care
Surgery to remove the appendix (small finger-shaped pouch at the end of the first part of the large intestine).
Industry:Health care
A small, fingerlike pouch that sticks out from the cecum (the first part of the large intestine near the end of the small intestine).
Industry:Health care
