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Forensic Pathology Test 4 Flashcards

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A sac like cyst that presents itself on the ovaries

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Ovarian cyst

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An enclosed sac like pouch with a definite wall that usually contains liquid solid, or semi solid material

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Cyst

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A cyst that contains teeth or hair inside the cyst

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Dermoid Cyst

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A cyst that forms on an oil glad

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Sebaceous or Wen cyst

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Excessive growth; an increase in size of a body part or organ by an increase in size of the cells already present

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Hypertrophy

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An increase in size of a body part or organ due to increased functional demand like the pregnant uterus.

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Physiological hypertrophy

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Increase in size of a body part or organ due to disease like Whelm’s disease

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Pathological hypertrophy

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Increase in size of a body part or organ to compensate loss of a similar or unpaired organ.

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Compensatory hypertrophy

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An increase in size of a body part or organ by an increase in the number of cells making it up

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Hyperplasia

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The replacement of one type of tissue with another type of tissue that is no9t normally found in that part of the body like oat cell carcinoma

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Metaplasia

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Tumors are also known as

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Neoplasms

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Generally contain the suffix OMA and they will not kill

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Benign tumors

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Generally contain a suffix of sarcoma or carcinoma; they will kill

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Malignant tumors

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A malignant tumor of connective tissue is a

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Sarcoma

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A malignant tumor of a epithelial tissue is a

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carcinoma

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A benign tumor of a gland like the breast

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Adenoma-glandular

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Stalk like growths found mostly in the nasal cavities and intestinal tract

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Papilloma or Polyp

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A single benign pigmented tumor

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Nevus or Mole

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A benign tumor of skeletal tissue

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Rhabdomyoma

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A benign tumor of smooth muscle tissue

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leiomyoma

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A benign tumor of the bone

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osteoma

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a benign tumor of the cartilage

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chondroma

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a benign tumor of fat

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lipoma

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a benign tumor of vascular tissue

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angioma

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a benign tumor of blood vascular tissue

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hemangioma

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a benign tumor of lymph vascular tissue

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lymphangioma

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a benign tumor of fibrous tissue

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fibroma

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a benign tumor of the nervous system

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neuroma

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a malignant pigmented tumor

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melanoma

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a malignant tumor of the squamous cell also known as skin cancer

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squamous cell carcinoma

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a malignant tumor of glandular epithelial tissue also known as breast cancer

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adenocarcinoma

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a malignant tumor of transitional cells also known as bladder cancer

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transitional cell carcinoma

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a malignant tumor of a basal cell, mostly found on the face or cheeks

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basal cell carcinoma

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a malignant tumor of the bone also known as bone cancer

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osteosarcoma

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a malignant tumor of of cartilage such as laryngeal cancer

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chondrosarcoma

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a malignant tumor of fatty connective tissue that infiltrates

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liposarcoma

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a malignant tumor of fibrous connective tissue

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fibrilesarcoma

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a malignant tumor that originated in the blood vascular tissue

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angiosarcoma

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a malignant tumor of blood vascular tissue

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hemangiosarcoma

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a malignant tumor of lymph vascular tissue

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lymphangiosarcoma

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a malignant tumor of the lymphoid tissue

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lymphoma

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a malignant tumor present on the left side of a males neck

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Hodgkins

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a malignant tumor of muscle tissue

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myosarcoma

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a malignant tumor of skeletal muscle tissue

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rhabdomyosarcoma

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a malignant tumor the smooth visceral muscle tissue such as esophageal cancer

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leiomyosarcoma

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a malignant tumor of nerve tissue like a brain tumor

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glioma

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a widespread hemorrhage scattered throughout the body petchial size

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purpura

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