Ch 2 Complementary Terms BFWP

Question 1

Cancerous

Answer 1

Pertaining to cancer

Question 2

Carcinogen

Answer 2

Substance that causes cancer

Question 3

Carcinogenic

Answer 3

Producing cancer

Question 4

Cyanosis

Answer 4

Abnormal condition of blue (bluish discoloration, especially of the skin, caused by inadequate supply of oxygen in the blood)

Question 5

Diagnosis

Answer 5

State of complete knowledge (the art of identifying a disease based on the patient’s signs, symptoms, and test results)

Question 6

Etiology

Answer 6

Study of causes (of diseases)

Question 7

Iatrogenic

Answer 7

Produced by a physician (the unexpected results from a treatment prescribed bya physician)

Question 8

Iatrology

Answer 8

Study of medicine

Question 9

Metastasis (pl. Metastases) (METS)

Answer 9

Beyond control (transfer of cells from one organ to another, as in malignant tumors)

Question 10

Oncogenic

Answer 10

Causing tumors

Question 11

Oncologist

Answer 11

Physician who studies and treats (malignant) tumors

Question 12

Oncology

Answer 12

Study of tumors (a branch of medicine concerned with the study of malignant tumors)

Question 13

Organic

Answer 13

Pertaining to an organ

Question 14

Pathogenic

Answer 14

Producing disease

Question 15

Pathologist

Answer 15

Physician who studies disease ( examines biopsies and performs autopsies to determine the cause of disease or death)

Question 16

Pathology

Answer 16

Study of disease (a branch of medicine dealing with the study of the causes of disease and death)

Question 17

Prognosis (Px)

Answer 17

State of before knowledge (prediction of the outcome of disease based on patient’s signs, symptoms, and test results)

Question 18

Xanthochromic

Answer 18

Pertaining to yellow collor

Question 19

Xanthosis

Answer 19

Abnormal condition of yellow (discoloration)