Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Softening and degeneration of muscle.
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- noun pathology
dissolution ofmuscular tissue - noun surgery
laparoscopic myoma coagulation
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Known as the “laparoscopic myoma coagulation,” or “myolysis,” the procedure uses the customary tiny abdominal incision, into which your doctor will place special laser equipment that works to destroy the blood supply of your tumor.
Getting Pregnant Niels H. Lauersen 2000
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Compared to a standard hysterectomy, which requires up to six weeks of recovery, myolysis is an outpatient procedure that allows you to return to work within five days.
Getting Pregnant Niels H. Lauersen 2000
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Spontaneous re fl ect their nonspeci fi city with symptoms such tumor regression (although observed clinically as fever, myalgias, fl u-like symptoms and rhabdo - only very rarely) and the development of rare myolysis. tumors in immunocompromised patients (such as Kaposi sarcoma in patients with AIDS) are both consistent with the usefulness of endogenous host Immune adjuvants mechanisms to either prevent or retard cancer.
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