| lymphocytic colitis |
A "new" chronic inflammatory bowel disease, one of the microscopic colitides (the other one is collagenous colitis). The main symptom of this disease is chronic watery diarrhea. The colonoscopy finding is normal, but the histopathologic findings include an increased amount of intraepithelial lymphycytes and other signs of chronic inflammation.There is an association between this disease and coeliac disease. There is only limited treatment experience so far. ...
출처: www.gastrolab.net/dictel.htm
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| lymphocyte proliferation assay |
a test used to measure the memory of CD4 cells (so-called memory T cells) to antigens or microbes, such as HIV.
출처: www.thebody.com/sfaf/summer01/glossary.html
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| lymphoid organs |
Include tonsils, adenoids, lymph nodes, spleen, thymus, and other tissues. These organs act as the body's filtering system, trapping invaders (ie, foreign particles, eg, bacteria and viruses) and presenting them to squadrons of immune cells that congregate there. Within these lymphoid tissues, immune activity is concentrated in regions called germinal centers, where the thread-like tentacles of follicular dendritic cells (FDCs) form networks that trap invaders.
출처: www.thebody.com/hivatis/glossary/l.html
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| lymphocyte |
(noun) any of the colorless weakly motile cells originating from stem cells and differentiating in lymphoid tissue (as of the thymus or bone marrow) that are the typical cellular elements of lymph , include the cellular mediators of immunity, and constitute 20 to 30 percent of the white blood cells of normal human blood
출처: www.orgsites.com/fl/adjuvantdisease/_pgg9.php3
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| lymphoscintigraphy |
(lim-fo-sin-TIG-ruh-fee) A method used to identify the sentinel lymph node (the first draining lymph node near a tumor). A radioactive substance that can be taken up by lymph nodes is injected at the site of the tumor, and a doctor follows the movement of this substance on a computer screen. Once the lymph nodes that have taken up the substance are identified, they can be removed and examined to see if they contain tumor cells.
출처: www.seniormag.com/conditions/cancer/cancerglossary...
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