lymph nodesin a sentence
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The new technology permits testing the lymph nodes for breast cancer markers during the surgery and, if necessary, removing them immediately rather than waiting for days and then performing a second surgery for infected nodes.
lymph nodes = bean-sized organs that filter bacteria and other toxins from circulating white-blood-cell filled lymph fluid
- They had taken her right breast, the muscles on the right side of her chest, and the lymph glands under her right arm, a traditional radical mastectomy.† (source)
- He can feel the lymph nodes on either side of his neck compressing his esophagus and trachea.† (source)
- New tumors seemed to appear daily—on her lymph nodes, hip bones, labia—and she spent most days with a fever up to 105.† (source)
- They cut out the area around the mole, and because of its size, they took out eighteen of his lymph nodes.† (source)
- It's a form of cancer that attacks the lymph nodes.† (source)
- He had also had a swollen lymph gland, four warts, and six cases of impetigo in the groin, but it would not have occurred to him or any man to think of these as diseases; they were only the spoils of war.† (source)
- John had swellings in his neck, which at first glance resembled scrofula—cervical lymphadenitis, tb in the lymph nodes of the neck, fairly common in Haiti.† (source)
- This, along with enlarged mesenteric lymph nodes indicates a clear pattern of--† (source)
- Greg was then a chemistry and nursing student, and when he learned that his father's cancer had metastasized and spread to his lymph nodes and liver, he realized how quickly he could lose him.† (source)
- There were lymph glands that might do him in.† (source)
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- His movements were smooth and flowing as he bent Anjali's head toward her chest to check for neck stiffness, as he felt for lymph nodes, moved her limbs, and as he tapped her patellar tendon using his cocked finger in lieu of a reflex hammer.† (source)
- The plague sores—buboes—are lymph nodes that have been turned into necrotic, hemorrhagic tissue.† (source)
- They were affecting lymph nodes, for example.† (source)
- Here she could envision a man's skeleton, his musculature; she could describe the workings of his lymph nodes.† (source)
- In one patient, Henrietta's cancer cells metastasized to her lymph nodes.† (source)
- Sources on the standard treatment regimen for cervical cancer in the 1950s include A. Brunschwig, "The Operative Treatment of Carcinoma of the Cervix: Radical Panhysterectomy with Pelvic Lymph Node Excision," American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology 61, no. 6 (June 1951); R. W Green, "Carcinoma of the Cervix: Surgical Treatment (A Review)," Journal of the Maine Medical Association 42, no. 11 (November 1952); R. T Schmidt, "Panhysterectomy in the Treatment of Carcinoma of the…† (source)
- Despite oral sulfatriad tablets and, later, at Ghosh's insistence, injection of precious penicillin into his buttocks, scarlet streaks (which were the hallmark of streptococcal infection) showed at his wrist, and the epitrochlear lymph node behind the elbow became as big as a golf ball.† (source)
- That's what got us started on all this—thickening of the lymph glands, here and there, at the back of the knee or the crook of the elbow for instance, rather like the tumors associated with dropsy.† (source)
- He described the lymphatic vessels, the system of arteries and absorbent tubes; spoke about how breast milk was formed from lymph collected from the legs, abdomen, chest, one arm, and one side of the head; then went on to talk about how at various points in the lymph vessels there were delicate filters called lymph glands, located along the neck, in the armpits, at the crooks of the elbows, the backs of the knees, and similar intimate, sensitive spots on the body.† (source)
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