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United States Department of Health and Human Services, Radiation Emergency Medical Management
A tube that carries bile from the liver. It starts where the right and left hepatic (liver) ducts join outside the liver. It ends where the cystic duct from the gall bladder joins it to form the common bile duct. It is part of the biliary duct system.
Industry:Health care
The process of breaking down food into substances the body can use for energy, tissue growth, and repair.
Industry:Health care
A substance that is made in the laboratory and stimulates the bone marrow to make red blood cells. It is a type of antianemic and a type of recombinant human erythropoietin.
Industry:Health care
Acid that is released into the stomach from glands in the stomach wall. It helps digest food. Gastric acid is made of hydrochloric acid.
Industry:Health care
Having to do with homeostasis, which is a state of balance among all the body systems, needed for the body to function correctly.
Industry:Health care
A procedure in which a plastic or metal tube is inserted through the mouth into the esophagus (the tube that carries food to the stomach) to keep it open. This procedure may be used during radiation therapy for esophageal cancer.
Industry:Health care
A drug used to treat diarrhea. Loperamide hydrochloride slows the movement of the muscles in the small intestine to allow more water to be taken out of the feces (waste matter) and more nutrients to be absorbed. Also called Imodium.
Industry:Health care
An anticancer drug that can cross the blood-brain barrier. Carmustine and lomustine are nitrosoureas.
Industry:Health care
Treatment given to relieve the symptoms and reduce the suffering caused by cancer and other life-threatening diseases. Palliative cancer therapies are given together with other cancer treatments, from the time of diagnosis, through treatment, survivorship, recurrent or advanced disease, and at the end of life.
Industry:Health care
