'Vegetative Growth'? What the heck is that?
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bluerose
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Anyone know what that means? Got a report back from a pelvic ultrasound and never saw that term before. Of course I will ask my oncologist just wondered if anyone had heard of it before. I think it's on the cyst they found but apparently it hadn't shown up in the previous scan. Vegetative? What, am I growing broccoli in there now? Oh joy, something new, sigh.
Any feedback on this terminology? Didn't want to google it then scare the heck out of myself so thought I would ask.
Thanks.
Blue
Any feedback on this terminology? Didn't want to google it then scare the heck out of myself so thought I would ask.
Thanks.
Blue
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Googled definition
vegetative medical dictionary
1. Concerned with growth and with nutrition.
2. Functioning involuntarily or unconsciously, as the vegetative nervous system.
3. Resting, denoting the portion of a cell cycle during which the cell is not involved in replication.
4. Of, pertaining to or characteristic of plants.
(11 Mar 2008)
I would guess number 3. Let's hope that it's not broccoli0
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