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Chapter 2 B Bone Structure, Color, And Oncology Flashcards

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Epitheli/o

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Epithelium

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Aden/o

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Gland

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Fibr/o

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Fiber

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Hist/o

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Tissue

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Kary/o

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Nucleus,

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Lip/o

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Fat

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My/o

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Muscle

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Neur/o

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Nerve

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Organ/o

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Organ

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Sarc/o

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Flesh, connective tissue

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System/o

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System

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Viscer/o

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Internal organs

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Cancer (a disease characterized by the unregulated, abnormal growth of new cells)

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Cancer/o, carcin/o

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Cause (of disease)

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Eti/o

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Knowledge

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Gno/0

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Physician, medicine (also treatment)

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iatr/o

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Smooth

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Lei/o

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Tumor, mass

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Onc/o

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Disease

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Path/o

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Rod-shaped, striated

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Rhabd/o

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Body

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Somat/o

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Green

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Chlor/o

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Color

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Chrom/o

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Blue

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Cyan

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Red

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Erythr/o

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White

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Leuk/o

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Black

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Melan/o

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Yellow

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Xanth/o

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Through, complete

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Dia-

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Painful, abnormal, difficult, labored

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Dys-

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Above, excessive

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Hyper-

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Below, incomplete, deficient

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Hypo-

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After, beyond, change

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Meta-

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New

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Neo-

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Before

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Pro-

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Pertaining to

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-al, -ic, -ous

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Cell

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-cit/o (cyte)

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Substance or agent that produces or causes

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Producing, originating, causing

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-genic

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One who studies and treats (specialist, physician)

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–logist

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Study of

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-ology

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Resembling

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-oid

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Tumor, swelling

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-oma

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Abnormal, condition (means increase when used with blood cell word roots)

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-osis

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Disease

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-pathy

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Condition of formation, development, growth

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-plasia

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Growth, substance, formation

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-plasm

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Malignant tumor

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-sarcoma

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State of

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-sis

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Control, stop, standing

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-stasis

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Cancer of glandular tissue

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Adenocarcinoma

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Tumor composed of glandular tissue (benign)

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Adenoma

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Cancerous tumor

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Carcinoma (CA)

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Tumor of green color (malignant, arising from myeloid tissue)

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Chloroma

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Tumor composed of epithelium (may be benign or malignant)

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Epithelioma

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Tumor composed of fiber (benign)

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Fibroma

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Malignant tumor composed of fiber (fibrous tissue)

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Fibrosarcoma

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Tumor composed of smooth muscle (benign)

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Leiomysarcoma

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Tumor composed of fat (benign tumor)

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Lipoma

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Malignant tumor composed of fat

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Lliposarcoma

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Cancerous black tumor (malignant)

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Melanocarcinoma

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Black tumor(primarily of the skin)

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Melanoma

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Tumor composed of muscle (benign)

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Myoma

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New growth (of abnormal tissue or tumor)

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Neoplasm

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Tumor composed of nerve (benign)

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Neuroma

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Tumor composed of striated muscle (benign)

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Rhabdomyoma

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Malignant tumor of striated muscle

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Rhabdomyosarcoma

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Tumor of connective tissue (such as bone or cartilage) (highly malignant)

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Sarcoma

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Producing cells

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Cytogenic

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Resembling a cell

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Cytoid

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Study of cells

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Cytology

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Cell of substance

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Cytoplasm

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Abnormal development

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Dysplasia

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Pertaining to epithelium

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Epithelial

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Red blood cells

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Erythrocyte RBC

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Increase in the number of red blood cells

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Erythrocytosis

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Study of tissue

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Histology

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Excessive development (number of cells)

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Hyperplasia

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Incomplete development (of an organ or tissue)

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Hypoplasia

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Cell with a nucleus

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Kryoplasm

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White blood cell

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Leukocyte

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Increase in the number of white blood cells

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Leukocytosis

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Resembling fat

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Lipoid

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Disease of the muscle

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Myopathy

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Resembling a nerve

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Neuroid

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Pertaining to the body

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Somatic

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Originating in the body (organic opposed to psychologic)

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Somatogenic

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Body substance

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Somatoplasm

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Pertaining to a (body) system (or the body as a whole)

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Systemic

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Pertaining to the internal organs

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Visceral

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Pertaining to cancer

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Cancerous

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Substance that causes cancer

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Carcinogen

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Producing cancer

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Carcinogenic

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Cyanosis

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

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State of complete knowledge (identifying a disease)

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Diagnosis (Dx)

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Study of disease

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Etiology

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

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Iatrogenic

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Study of medicine

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Iatrology

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Beyond control (spread of disease from one muscle to another, a in the transfer of malignant tumors)

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Metastasis(mets) (pl. metastases)

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New disease

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Neopathy

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Causing tumors

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Oncogenic

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A physician who studies and treats tumors

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Oncologist

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

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Oncology

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Pertaining to an organ

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Organic

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Resembling an organ

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Organoid

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Producing disease

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Pathogenic

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

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Pathologist

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

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Pathology

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State of knowledge (prediction of the outcome of disease)

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Prognosis

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Pertaining to yellow color

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Xanthochromic

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Abnormal condition of yellow (discoloration)

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Xanthosis

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Not malignant, recurrent, favorable for recovery

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Benign

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Cancer in the early stages before invading surrounding tissue

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Carcinoma in situ

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Treatment of cancer with drugs

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Chemotherapy (chemo)

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Enclosed capsule, as with benign tumors

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Encapsulated

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Increase in the severity of a disease or its symptoms

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Exacerbation

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Pertaining to disease of unknown origin

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Idiopathic

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Response to injury or destruction of tissue characterized by redness, swelling, heat, and pain

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Inflammation

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Within a glass, observable within a tube

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In vitro

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Within the living body

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In vitro

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Tending to become progressively worse and to cause death, as in cancer

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Malignant

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Treatment of cancer with radioactive substance, x-ray, or radiation (also called radiation oncology and radiotherapy

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Radiation therapy (XRT)

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Improvement or absence of signs of disease

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Remission

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