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  2. Cryosurgery - Wikipedia

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    Cryosurgery (with cryo from the Ancient Greek κρύο ' icy cold ') is the use of extreme cold in surgery to destroy abnormal or diseased tissue; [1] thus, it is the surgical application of cryoablation. Cryosurgery has been historically used to treat a number of diseases and disorders, especially a variety of benign and malignant skin ...

  3. Nora Fries - Wikipedia

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    Nora Fries is a character appearing in American comic books published by DC Entertainment.She was created by Paul Dini and Bruce Timm for Batman: The Animated Series, in which she is depicted as the terminally ill wife of Dr. Victor Fries, who cryogenically freezes her and becomes the supervillain Mr. Freeze to find a cure for her condition.

  4. Cryonics - Wikipedia

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    Technicians preparing a body for cryopreservation in 1985. Cryonics (from Greek: κρύος kryos, meaning "cold") is the low-temperature freezing (usually at −196 °C or −320.8 °F or 77.1 K) and storage of human remains in the hope that resurrection may be possible in the future.

  5. Cryotherapy - Wikipedia

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    Cryotherapy is a specific type of low-temperature treatment used to reduce inflammation and its associated pain. [4] Cryotherapy was developed in the 1970s by Japanese rheumatologist Toshima Yamaguchi [5] [6] and introduced to Europe, US and Australia in the 1980s [7] [8] and 1990s. [9]

  6. List of fictional diseases - Wikipedia

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    The second stage is the sleeping, and it always lasts nine days. The last stage is fever, and it always lasts three days. At the end of the fever stage, the victim will die. The only cure is water sent down from the fairies' Mount Ziriat. The cure will only be discovered "when cowards find courage and rain falls over all Bamarre". Great plague

  7. Cryoimmunotherapy - Wikipedia

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    Cryoimmunotherapy, also referred to as cryoimmunology, is an oncological treatment for various cancers that combines cryoablation of tumor with immunotherapy treatment. [1] In-vivo cryoablation of a tumor, alone, can induce an immunostimulatory, systemic anti-tumor response, resulting in a cancer vaccine—the abscopal effect . [ 2 ]

  8. Cryoablation - Wikipedia

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    Cryoimmunotherapy is an oncological treatment for various cancers that combines cryoablation of tumor with immunotherapy treatment. [9] In-vivo cryoablation of a tumor alone can induce an immunostimulatory, systemic anti-tumor response, resulting in a cancer vaccine – the abscopal effect . [ 10 ]

  9. Cryoprecipitate - Wikipedia

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    Cryoprecipitate, also called cryo for short, or Cryoprecipitate Antihemophilic factor (AHF), is a frozen blood product prepared from blood plasma. [1] To create cryoprecipitate, Plasma is slowly thawed to 1–6 °C. A cold-insoluble precipitate is formed, which is collected by centrifugation, resuspended in a small amount of residual plasma ...