Intro to Pathology _Edit

Question 1

Define Carcinoma

Answer 1

Malignant neoplasm of epithelial cell origin.

Question 2

Define Adenoma

Answer 2

An epithelial neoplasm which produces or is derived from glandular tissue.

Question 3

Define Papilloma

Answer 3

Benign tumor of surface epithelium in which neoplastic cells grow outward in finger like fibrovascular stalks.

Question 4

Define Teratoma

Answer 4

A germ cell neoplasm made of several different differentiated cell/tissue types.

Question 5

Define Sarcoma

Answer 5

Malignant neoplasm with origin in mesenchymal tissues or its derivatives.

Question 6

Define Lymphoma and Leukemia

Answer 6

Malignant neoplasms of hematopoietic tissues.

Question 7

Define Blastoma

Answer 7

is a type of cancer, more common in children, that is caused by malignancies in precursor cells, often called blasts. Examples are nephroblastoma, medulloblastoma and retinoblastoma.

Question 8

Define Melanoma

Answer 8

is a type of cancer of pigment producing cells (melanocytes) in the skin our the eye (uveal Melanoma).

Question 9

Define Hyperplasia

Answer 9

an increase in organ or tissue size due to an increase in the number of cells. Can be physiologic, compensatory, or pathologic.

Question 10

Define Metaplasia

Answer 10

an adaptive, substitution of one type of adult tissue to another type of adult tissue.

Question 11

Define Dysplasia

Answer 11

an abnormal cellular proliferation is which there is loss of normal architecture.

Question 12

Define Anaplasia

Answer 12

a loss of structural differentiation

Question 13

Define Desmoplasia

Answer 13

the formation and proliferation of connective tissues and cells.