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Capture(medicine)
capture(1)(dictionary)
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capture 1, verb(dictionary)
Depth capture(health)
Ventricular capture(medicine)
Dividend capture(money)
Electron capture(medicine)

lung cancer (sh) and capture 2, noun (oh)


lung cancer (sh)




Malignant tumour of the lung.

Four major types (squamous-cell carcinoma, adenocarcinoma, large-cell carcinoma, and small-cell carcinoma) have roughly equal prevalence. Most cases are due to long-term cigarette smoking. Heavy smoking and starting smoking earlier in life increase the risk. Passive inhalation ("secondhand smoke") is linked to lung cancer in nonsmokers. Other risk factors include exposure to radon or asbestos. Symptoms, including coughing (sometimes with blood), chest pain, and shortness of breath, seldom appear until lung cancer is advanced, when treatment with surgery, chemotherapy, and radiation or some combination of the three is less effective. Most patients die within a year of diagnosis.


capture 2, noun (oh)



2 n [U]
[Date: 1500-1600; Language: French; Origin: Latin captura, from captus; CAPTIVE1]
when you catch someone in order to make them a prisoner
::The two soldiers somehow managed to avoid capture.
when soldiers get control of a place that previously belonged to an enemy
capture of
::the capture of Jerusalem in 1099
when you get control of something that previously belonged to one of your competitors
when you put information into a form a computer can use