Students are welcome to take as much time as they like to practice before demonstrating skill competency. Skills will be evaluated on a pass/needs remediation basis. If skills are not successfully completed, students will be remediated by the instructor(s). Students may practice and be reevaluated.
A relatively rare, usually benign neoplasm originating in the chemoreceptor tissue of the carotid body, glomus jugulare, and aortic bodies. Compare: paraganglioma. Synonym(s): glomus jugulare tumor. [ chemo- + G. dektÄs, receiver, fr. dechomai, to receive, + -oma, tumor].
A cellular process characterized by the production of multiple copies of a particular gene or genes to amplify the phenotype that the gene confers on the cell. Drug resistance in cancer cells is linked to amplification of the gene that prevents absorption of the chemotherapeutic agent by the cell.