Lecture Quiz 6 Vocabulary (Exam 3)

Question 1

What is a skin infection like a pimple of the eye?

Answer 1

• Sty

Question 2

What test measure intraocular pressure (ex. Glaucoma)?

Answer 2

• Tonometry

Question 3

What are microaneurimsms of the eye that appear as cotton wool spots?

Answer 3

• Background Diabetic Retinopathy

Question 4

What is the loss of central vision and may be helped by antioxidants?

Answer 4

• Age-Related Macular Degeneration

Question 5

What is the most common tumor children?

Answer 5

• Retinoblastoma

Question 6

What is excess fluid in the inner ear?

Answer 6

• Meniere Disease

Question 7

What can be mistaken for dental/sinus pain but usually involves ear discharge?

Answer 7

• Otitis Media

Question 8

What is the uncontrolled growth of cells?

Answer 8

• Neoplasm

Question 9

Malignant tumor of epithelial tissue? Mesenchymal? Lymphoid? Hematopoietic?

Answer 9

• Epithelial: Carcinoma
• Mesenchymal: Sarcoma
• Lymphoid: Lymphoma
• Hematopoietic: Leukemia

Question 10

What is a malignancy of glandular epithelial cells? Benign tumor of fat cells? Malignancy of bone cells? Benign tumor of smooth muscle?

Answer 10

• Adenocarcinoma
• Lipoma
• Osteosarcoma
• Leiomyoma

Question 11

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?

Answer 11

• Incidence
• Mortality
• Prevalence
• Survival

Question 12

What test measures if a chemical alters genetic changes in bacteria?

Answer 12

• Ames Test

Question 13

What are 6 chemical carcinogens?

Answer 13

• Reactive chemicals
• Alkylating agents
• Nitrosamines
• Polycyclic compounds
• Aflaztoxin
• Metal Ions

Question 14

What is a very fast growing cancer which starts with B-Cells and can be fatal if not treated quickly?

Answer 14

• Burkitt’s Lymphoma

Question 15

What is present in Hodgkin’s lymphomas?

Answer 15

• Presence of Reed-Sternberg Cells

Question 16

What type of herpes virus is associated with B Cell lymphomas (Burkitt’s Lymphomas)?

Answer 16

• Epstein Barr Virus

Question 17

What are inflammatory masses that are not neoplasms?

Answer 17

• Granulomas

Question 18

What are maldeveloped tissues that are in proper tissues and not considered a malignancy?

Answer 18

• Hamartoma

Question 19

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?

Answer 19

• Carcinomas
• Carcinoma in Situ
  - Squamous Cell Carcinoma
  - Adenocarcinoma

Question 20

What are malignant mesenchymal tumors that have a pushing boarder and is less likely to metastasize, but travels by blood when it does? Examples?

Answer 20

• Sarcoma

- Liposarcoma and Leiomyosarcoma

Question 21

What develops in 10% of malignancies and involves hypercotisolism, carcinoid syndrome and polycythemia?

Answer 21

• Paraneioplastic Syndrome

Question 22

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?

Answer 22

• Li-Fraumeni Syndrome

- P53

Question 23

What clinical lab diagnosis is used for the prostate? Thyroid cancer? Leukemias/Lymphomas?

Answer 23

• Prostate Specific Antigen (PSA)
• Thyroglobulin Protein
• Flow Cytometry