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COLD-COMPRESS

Definition: cold cap-like dressing worn on the head prior to chemotherapy. The narrowing of blood vessels caused by cold reduces the effect of anticancer drugs on hair follicles.

Conceptual Structures
ISASURGICAL-AND-AMBULATORY-MEDICAL-DEVICES
ANCESTORSALL
ARTIFACT
DEVICE
INANIMATE
MEDICAL-DEVICE
OBJECT
PHYSICAL-OBJECT
SEPARABLE-ENTITY
SURGICAL-AND-AMBULATORY-MEDICAL-DEVICES
INHERITED
RELATIONS		CONTAINED-IN : PHYSICAL-OBJECT (from PHYSICAL-OBJECT)
    MANUFACTURED-CONTAINER (by default) (from PHYSICAL-OBJECT)
ELEMENT-OF : DIAGNOSTIC-DEVICE-BY-BODY-PART-INSPECTED (from ARTIFACT)
INSTRUMENT-OF : EVENT (from DEVICE)
LOCATION : PLACE (from PHYSICAL-OBJECT)
MADE-OF : METAL (from DEVICE)
    PLASTIC (from DEVICE)
OBJECT-NAME : NAME (from PHYSICAL-OBJECT)
OPERATED-BY : HUMAN (from ARTIFACT)
OWNED-BY : HUMAN (from ARTIFACT)
PART-OF : ARTIFACT (from ARTIFACT)
PRODUCT-TYPE-OF : ORGANIZATION (from ARTIFACT)
THEME-OF : EVENT (from DEVICE)
USED-IN-THE-DIAGNOSTIC-TEST-FOR : DISEASE-EVENT (from MEDICAL-DEVICE)
USED-IN-THE-TREATMENT-OF : HAVE-NEOPLASM (from MEDICAL-DEVICE)
INHERITED
ATTRIBUTES		AGE : >=0 (from ARTIFACT)
COLOR : GRAY (from ARTIFACT)
    MAGENTA (from ARTIFACT)
    TAN (from ARTIFACT)
    GREEN (from ARTIFACT)
    CYAN (from ARTIFACT)
    RED (from ARTIFACT)
    BLUE (from ARTIFACT)
    ORANGE (from ARTIFACT)
    YELLOW (from ARTIFACT)
    PURPLE (from ARTIFACT)
PRODUCTION-MODE : MECHANICAL (from ARTIFACT)
    AUTOMATED (from ARTIFACT)
    MANUAL (from ARTIFACT)
SIZE : <=0>=1000000 (from PHYSICAL-OBJECT)