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Aphasia
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Loss of the power to use or understand words, usually caused by brain disease or injury
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Abscess
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Swollen inflamed afraid body tissues
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Arteriosclerosis
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A thickening and hardening of the walls of the arteries, as in old age
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Benign
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Beneficial
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Biopsy
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The cutting out of a piece of tissue for diagnostic examination by microscope
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Cadaver
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Dead body
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Carcinogen
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Any substance that causes cancer
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Comatose
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Lethargic
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Etiology
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The science of the causes and origins of disease
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Malingerer
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One who fakes ill was and pretends to be suffering
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Mastectomy
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The surgical removal of a breast
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Prosthesis
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Replacement for a missing part of the body
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Simian
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Of or like a monkey or an ape
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Therapeutic
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Serving to heal
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Vasectomy
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The surgical removal of the duct that conveys the male sperm
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