Chapter 2 B Bone Structure, Color, And Oncology Flashcards
Epitheli/o
Epithelium
Aden/o
Gland
Fibr/o
Fiber
Hist/o
Tissue
Kary/o
Nucleus,
Lip/o
Fat
My/o
Muscle
Neur/o
Nerve
Organ/o
Organ
Sarc/o
Flesh, connective tissue
System/o
System
Viscer/o
Internal organs
Cancer (a disease characterized by the unregulated, abnormal growth of new cells)
Cancer/o, carcin/o
Cause (of disease)
Eti/o
Knowledge
Gno/0
Physician, medicine (also treatment)
iatr/o
Smooth
Lei/o
Tumor, mass
Onc/o
Disease
Path/o
Rod-shaped, striated
Rhabd/o
Body
Somat/o
Green
Chlor/o
Color
Chrom/o
Blue
Cyan
Red
Erythr/o
White
Leuk/o
Black
Melan/o
Yellow
Xanth/o
Through, complete
Dia-
Painful, abnormal, difficult, labored
Dys-
Above, excessive
Hyper-
Below, incomplete, deficient
Hypo-
After, beyond, change
Meta-
New
Neo-
Before
Pro-
Pertaining to
-al, -ic, -ous
Cell
-cit/o (cyte)
Substance or agent that produces or causes
-gen
Producing, originating, causing
-genic
One who studies and treats (specialist, physician)
–logist
Study of
-ology
Resembling
-oid
Tumor, swelling
-oma
Abnormal, condition (means increase when used with blood cell word roots)
-osis
Disease
-pathy
Condition of formation, development, growth
-plasia
Growth, substance, formation
-plasm
Malignant tumor
-sarcoma
State of
-sis
Control, stop, standing
-stasis
Cancer of glandular tissue
Adenocarcinoma
Tumor composed of glandular tissue (benign)
Adenoma
Cancerous tumor
Carcinoma (CA)
Tumor of green color (malignant, arising from myeloid tissue)
Chloroma
Tumor composed of epithelium (may be benign or malignant)
Epithelioma
Tumor composed of fiber (benign)
Fibroma
Malignant tumor composed of fiber (fibrous tissue)
Fibrosarcoma
Tumor composed of smooth muscle (benign)
Leiomysarcoma
Tumor composed of fat (benign tumor)
Lipoma
Malignant tumor composed of fat
Lliposarcoma
Cancerous black tumor (malignant)
Melanocarcinoma
Black tumor(primarily of the skin)
Melanoma
Tumor composed of muscle (benign)
Myoma
New growth (of abnormal tissue or tumor)
Neoplasm
Tumor composed of nerve (benign)
Neuroma
Tumor composed of striated muscle (benign)
Rhabdomyoma
Malignant tumor of striated muscle
Rhabdomyosarcoma
Tumor of connective tissue (such as bone or cartilage) (highly malignant)
Sarcoma
Producing cells
Cytogenic
Resembling a cell
Cytoid
Study of cells
Cytology
Cell of substance
Cytoplasm
Abnormal development
Dysplasia
Pertaining to epithelium
Epithelial
Red blood cells
Erythrocyte RBC
Increase in the number of red blood cells
Erythrocytosis
Study of tissue
Histology
Excessive development (number of cells)
Hyperplasia
Incomplete development (of an organ or tissue)
Hypoplasia
Cell with a nucleus
Kryoplasm
White blood cell
Leukocyte
Increase in the number of white blood cells
Leukocytosis
Resembling fat
Lipoid
Disease of the muscle
Myopathy
Resembling a nerve
Neuroid
Pertaining to the body
Somatic
Originating in the body (organic opposed to psychologic)
Somatogenic
Body substance
Somatoplasm
Pertaining to a (body) system (or the body as a whole)
Systemic
Pertaining to the internal organs
Visceral
Pertaining to cancer
Cancerous
Substance that causes cancer
Carcinogen
Producing cancer
Carcinogenic
Cyanosis
Abnormal condition of the blue (bluish discoloration of the skin caused by inadequate oxygen in the blood)
State of complete knowledge (identifying a disease)
Diagnosis (Dx)
Study of disease
Etiology
Produced by a physician (the unexpected results from a treatment prescribed by a doctor)
Iatrogenic
Study of medicine
Iatrology
Beyond control (spread of disease from one muscle to another, a in the transfer of malignant tumors)
Metastasis(mets) (pl. metastases)
New disease
Neopathy
Causing tumors
Oncogenic
A physician who studies and treats tumors
Oncologist
Study of tumors (a branch of of medicine concerned with the study of malignant tumors)
Oncology
Pertaining to an organ
Organic
Resembling an organ
Organoid
Producing disease
Pathogenic
A physician who studies disease (examines biopsies and performs autopsies to determine the cause of disease or death)
Pathologist
Study of disease ( a branch of medicine dealing with the study of the causes of disease or death)
Pathology
State of knowledge (prediction of the outcome of disease)
Prognosis
Pertaining to yellow color
Xanthochromic
Abnormal condition of yellow (discoloration)
Xanthosis
Not malignant, recurrent, favorable for recovery
Benign
Cancer in the early stages before invading surrounding tissue
Carcinoma in situ
Treatment of cancer with drugs
Chemotherapy (chemo)
Enclosed capsule, as with benign tumors
Encapsulated
Increase in the severity of a disease or its symptoms
Exacerbation
Pertaining to disease of unknown origin
Idiopathic
Response to injury or destruction of tissue characterized by redness, swelling, heat, and pain
Inflammation
Within a glass, observable within a tube
In vitro
Within the living body
In vitro
Tending to become progressively worse and to cause death, as in cancer
Malignant
Treatment of cancer with radioactive substance, x-ray, or radiation (also called radiation oncology and radiotherapy
Radiation therapy (XRT)
Improvement or absence of signs of disease
Remission