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11. Glossary
Suggested
lay language Translations for informed consent forms
- Acute: new, recent, sudden
- Adverse Effect: side effect
- Assay: lab test
- Benign: not malignant or threatening, usually without
serious consequence
- Bolus: an amount given all at once
- Carcinogenic: capable of causing cancer
- Catheter: a tube for withdrawing or introducing fluids
- Chronic: continuing for a long time
- Clinical Trial: an experiment in patients
- Controlled Trial: a study in which the experimental
treatment procedures are compared to a standard (control)
treatment or procedure
- Contraindicated should not be used
- Culture: test for infection or organisms that could cause
infection
- Double Blind: a study in which neither the investigators
nor the subjects know what drug the subject is receiving
- Dysplasia: abnormal cells
- Edema: increased fluid
- Efficacy: effectiveness
- Failed therapy subjects do not "fail therapies"
but rather therapies fail to help subjects
- Hematoma: a bruise, a black and blue mark
- Heparin Lock: a needle placed in the arm with blood
thinner to keep the blood from clotting
- Monitor: check on; keep track of; watch carefully
- Morbidity: undesired result or complication
- Mortality: death or death rate
- Necrosis: death of tissue
- Oncology: the study of tumors or cancer
- Percutaneous: through the skin
- Placebo: an inactive substance like a sugar pill
- PRN: as needed
- Protocol: a plan of study
- Random: by chance, like the flip of a coin
- Relapse: the return of a disease
- Retrospective Study: a study looking back over past
experience
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