"node" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- The sentinel node's status seems to predict accurately whether the other nodes under the arm will be free of cancer.
- The sentinel nodes are the first place that cancer is likely to spread.
- In breast cancer, the sentinel node is usually located in the axillary nodes, under the arm.
- If the sentinel node is positive there may be other positive lymph nodes upstream.
- If sentinel nodes are being used, the list is usually said to be empty when it has only sentinel nodes.
- One may also use a sentinel node at the end of the list, with an appropriate data field, to eliminate some end-of-list tests.
- With this convention, an empty list consists of the sentinel node alone, pointing to itself via the next-node link.
- If the sentinel nodes are free of cancer, the disease has not spread to the rest and no more nodes are removed.
- If a sentinel node is cancerous, however, more nodes must be removed.
- A sentinel node does not hold or reference any data managed by the data structure.
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