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Introducing The Cancer Dictionary
This 'dictionary' will help you with some of the medical
and scientific terms most often used by nurses, doctors, researchers
and technicians who deal with cancer on an everyday basis.
Using The Cancer Dictionary
The technical words explained in The Cancer Dictionary
also have a very simple pronunciation aid. The stressed syllables
are in heavier type, while retaining the normal spelling, for
example:
Where a single word is pronounced as if it were two words,
each with its stressed syllable, we show how it is split and
where the stresses fall:
| antiemetic
[an-ti e-met-ic] |
When a definition uses words that are also defined in The Cancer
Dictionary, those words are linked, for example:
adenoma
[a-den-o-ma]
A benign tumour (not a cancer) that starts in gland tissue or has a gland-like
appearance. An adenoma may become malignant (cancerous) if it is not treated.
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Using the diagrams
The Cancer Dictionary also contains diagrams of different
parts of the body. When a part of the body mentioned in the word
explanations is shown in the diagrams, you are referred to the
relevant diagram, for example:
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