Med term-Ch.2: Complementary

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Carcinogen

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Substance that causes cancer

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Cancerous

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Pertaining to cancer

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Carcinogenic

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Producing cancer

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Cyanosis

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

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Diagnosis

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State of complete knowledge (identifying a disease)

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Etiology

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Study of causes(of diseases)

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Iatrogenic

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

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iatrology

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Study of medicine

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Metastasis (metastases) (mets)

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Beyond control (transfer of cells from one organ to another, malignant tumors)

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Oncogenic

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Causing tumors

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Oncologist

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Physician who studies and treats (malignant) tumors

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Oncology

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

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Organic

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Pertaining to an organ

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Pathogenic

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Producing disease

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Pathologist

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

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Pathology

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

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Prognosis

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State of before knowledge (prediction of the outcome of disease)

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Xanthochromic

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Pertaining to yellow color

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Xanthosis

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Abnormal condition of yellow (discoloration) (i.e. Jaundice)

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Apoptosis

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Programmed cell death, a mechanism for cell deletion to regulate cell production, or destroy damaged or defective cells. Some cancers disrupt apoptosis; cells lose their ability to die and live forever.

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Benign

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Not malignant, nonrecurrent, favorable for recovery

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Biological therapy

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Treatment of cancer with biological response modifiers (BRM) that work with the immune system. (Also called biotherapy or immunotherapy)

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Carcinoma in situ

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Cancer in early stages before invading surrounding tissue

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Chemotherapy

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Treatment of cancer with drugs

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Encapsulated

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Enclosed within a capsule, as with benign or malignant tumors that have not spread beyond the capsule of the organ in which it originated

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Exacerbation

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Increase in severity of a disease or it’s symptoms

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Hospice

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Provides palliative or supportive care for terminally ill patients and their families

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Idiopathic

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Pertaining to disease of unknown origin

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Inflammation

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Localized protective response to injury or tissue destruction characterized by redness, swelling, heat and pain

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In vitro

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Within a glass, observable within a test tube

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In vivo

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Within the living body

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Malignant

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

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Morbidity

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State of being diseased or unwell; incidence of illness in a population

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Mortality

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State of being mortal (death); incidence of the number of deaths in a population

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Palliative

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Providing relief but not cure

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Radiation therapy (XRT)

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

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Remission

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Improvement or absence of signs of disease