Category: I

A blood protein fraction that contains antibodies. Proteins obtained from human plasma; passive immunizing agents. Immune globulins are used to protect immunocompromised people against hepatitis A and B, measles, pertussis (whooping cough), poliomyelitis, varicella (chickenpox), human rabies, and tetanus. They are also given to people who are not immunocompromised: for example, immune globulins are recommended…

Antibodies that fight infection or agents foreign to the body.  

Liquid that has the same concentration as normal body fluid.  

Asthma of unknown cause. Asthma assumed to be due to some endogenous cause because no external cause can be found. The term occasionally used to describe a form of asthma that lacks a recognizable allergic trigger, such as pollen.  

Instillation of chemotherapy drugs into the bladder for the purpose of killing rapidly dividing cancer cells in the bladder or kidney.  

Assessment of sensitivity to an antigen injected into the skin.  

Seizures that are ongoing even with optimal medical management.  

A surgical procedure that destroys bladder stones using a flexible scope that emits electrical charges.  

Radiotherapy in which one or more radioactive sources are placed within a body cavity to irradiate the walls of the body cavity or proximal tissue. Treatment directed into a body cavity. The advantage to this method is that very high doses of radiation can be delivered directly to a tumor site while sparing surrounding tissue.…

Breakage of bone in a fashion that extends through the cartilaginous covering of the bone into the joint space.