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Taking over the role of something else. Referring to people who have adopted a child or a child that has been adopted.  

To decide to use a particular plan or idea or way of doing something. To become the legal parent of a child who was born to other parents.  

To register a patient in a hospital.  

To give someone medicine or a treatment.  

Therapy using drugs or radiation after cancer surgery. The use of additional therapy in addition to the primary therapy. In cancer care, for example, surgery to remove a tumor may be the primary treatment, and radiation therapy to destroy neighboring cells and tissues an adjuvent therapy. After the initial course of treatment, encompassing radiation, chemotherapy…

An opening or entrance to a passage. An anatomical opening or passage; for example, the opening of the tympanic cavity (middle ear) to the air spaces of the mastoid process.  

The presence of fat in the urine. Passing of fat in the urine. This condition is almost always abnormal and may be due to a variety of conditions, including elevated blood fats (hypercholesterolemia, hypertriglyceridemia) and kidney disease (nephrotic syndrome). Also called lipuria.  

A disease of middle-aged women in which painful lumps of fatty substance form in the body. Also known as Dercum’s disease. A condition in which painful masses of fat develop under the skin — more common in women than in men. A condition marked by the occurrence of sore, sensitive fatty lumps within the body,…

An accumulation of fat in the cells of an organ such as the heart or liver, which makes the organ less able to perform its proper function.