Lecture Quiz 6 Vocabulary (Exam 3) Flashcards
What is a skin infection like a pimple of the eye?
- Sty
What test measure intraocular pressure (ex. Glaucoma)?
- Tonometry
What are microaneurimsms of the eye that appear as cotton wool spots?
- Background Diabetic Retinopathy
What is the loss of central vision and may be helped by antioxidants?
- Age-Related Macular Degeneration
What is the most common tumor children?
- Retinoblastoma
What is excess fluid in the inner ear?
- Meniere Disease
What can be mistaken for dental/sinus pain but usually involves ear discharge?
- Otitis Media
What is the uncontrolled growth of cells?
- Neoplasm
Malignant tumor of epithelial tissue? Mesenchymal? Lymphoid? Hematopoietic?
- Epithelial: Carcinoma
- Mesenchymal: Sarcoma
- Lymphoid: Lymphoma
- Hematopoietic: Leukemia
What is a malignancy of glandular epithelial cells? Benign tumor of fat cells? Malignancy of bone cells? Benign tumor of smooth muscle?
- Adenocarcinoma
- Lipoma
- Osteosarcoma
- Leiomyoma
What is a newly diagnosed case/time? What is deaths/time? New and preexisting cases at one time? Proportion of patients alive at a given time after diagnosis?
- Incidence
- Mortality
- Prevalence
- Survival
What test measures if a chemical alters genetic changes in bacteria?
- Ames Test
What are 6 chemical carcinogens?
- Reactive chemicals
- Alkylating agents
- Nitrosamines
- Polycyclic compounds
- Aflaztoxin
- Metal Ions
What is a very fast growing cancer which starts with B-Cells and can be fatal if not treated quickly?
- Burkitt’s Lymphoma
What is present in Hodgkin’s lymphomas?
- Presence of Reed-Sternberg Cells
What type of herpes virus is associated with B Cell lymphomas (Burkitt’s Lymphomas)?
- Epstein Barr Virus
What are inflammatory masses that are not neoplasms?
- Granulomas
What are maldeveloped tissues that are in proper tissues and not considered a malignancy?
- Hamartoma
What are the most common kind of malignancies that metastasize to regional lymph nodes and can spread through the blood? What form of this are not invasive and do not metastasize? What are two examples of this?
- Carcinomas
- Carcinoma in Situ
- Squamous Cell Carcinoma
- Adenocarcinoma
What are malignant mesenchymal tumors that have a pushing boarder and is less likely to metastasize, but travels by blood when it does? Examples?
- Sarcoma
- Liposarcoma and Leiomyosarcoma
What develops in 10% of malignancies and involves hypercotisolism, carcinoid syndrome and polycythemia?
- Paraneioplastic Syndrome
What is a rare inherited genetic cancer disorder that greatly increases the risk of developing multiple cancers/tumors in childhood/young adults? What tumor suppressor gene is usually effected by this?
- Li-Fraumeni Syndrome
- P53
What clinical lab diagnosis is used for the prostate? Thyroid cancer? Leukemias/Lymphomas?
- Prostate Specific Antigen (PSA)
- Thyroglobulin Protein
- Flow Cytometry
