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  2. TNM staging system - Wikipedia

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    The TNM Classification of Malignant Tumors (TNM) is a globally recognised standard for classifying the anatomical extent of the spread of malignant tumours (cancer). It has gained wide international acceptance for many solid tumor cancers, but is not applicable to leukaemia or tumors of the central nervous system.

  3. List of medical roots, suffixes and prefixes - Wikipedia

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    of or pertaining to the veins, venous blood, and the vascular system: Latin vēna, blood-vessel, vein venule, venospasm: ventr(o)-of or pertaining to the belly, the stomach cavities Latin venter, belly, stomach, womb ventrodorsal: ventricul(o)-of or pertaining to the ventricles; any hollow region inside an organ

  4. Bovine leukemia virus - Wikipedia

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    Bovine leukemia virus (BLV) is a retrovirus which causes enzootic bovine leukosis in cattle.It is closely related to the human T‑lymphotropic virus type 1 ().BLV may integrate into the genomic DNA of B‑lymphocytes as a DNA intermediate (the provirus), or exist as unintegrated circular or linear forms. [2]

  5. List of medical abbreviations: B - Wikipedia

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    blood culture: bld: blood: BLE: Bilateral Lower Extremity (in/on both legs). BLS: basic life support: BM: bone marrow bowel movement breast milk Capillary blood glucose (British medical colloquialism originating from Boehringer Mannheim, a manufacturer of early glucose meters, today a part of Boehringer Ingelheim.) BMBx: Bone marrow biopsy: BMC ...

  6. Bovine malignant catarrhal fever - Wikipedia

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    Eye Ring. Bovine malignant catarrhal fever (BMCF) is a fatal lymphoproliferative disease [1] caused by a group of ruminant gamma herpes viruses including Alcelaphine gammaherpesvirus 1 (AlHV-1) [2] and Ovine gammaherpesvirus 2 (OvHV-2) [1] [3] These viruses cause unapparent infection in their reservoir hosts (sheep with OvHV-2 and wildebeest with AlHV-1), but are usually fatal in cattle and ...

  7. Grading (tumors) - Wikipedia

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    The neoplastic grading is a measure of cell anaplasia (reversion of differentiation) in the sampled tumor and is based on the resemblance of the tumor to the tissue of origin. [1] Grading in cancer is distinguished from staging, which is a measure of the extent to which the cancer has spread.

  8. List of cattle terminology - Wikipedia

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    Feeder cattle or store cattle are young cattle soon to be either backgrounded or sent to fattening, most especially those intended to be sold to someone else for finishing before butchering. In some regions, a distinction between stockers and feeders (by those names) is the distinction of backgrounding versus immediate sale to a finisher.

  9. Streptococcus bovis - Wikipedia

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    Streptococcus bovis is a group of strains of Gram-positive bacteria, originally described as a species, [5] [6] that in humans is associated with urinary tract infections, endocarditis, sepsis, [7] and colorectal cancer. [8] S. bovis is commonly found in the alimentary tract of cattle, sheep, and other ruminants, [9] and may cause ruminal acidosis.