Glossary of Terms

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• Telehealth

  The use of communications technologies to provide and support health care at a distance.

• Tesla

  An international unit to describe the strength of a magnetic field.

• Theranostics

  The relatively experimental science of combining therapy and diagnosis into a single procedure or molecule. Towards this end, bioengineers are building multi-functional nanoparticles that can be introduced into a patient, find the site of disease, diagnose the condition, and deliver the appropriate, personalized therapy.

• Tissue Engineering

  An interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary field that aims at the development of biological substitutes that restore, maintain, or improve tissue function.

• tumor spheroids

  Three-dimensional models of cancer cells which exhibit tumor characteristics