Patho Test 2 Flashcards
Attached to outside of lungs
Parietal pleura
Attached to chest wall and diaphragm
Visceral pleura
Protein digestion takes place in: (2)
stomach and small intestine
GI tract accessory structures: (4)
gallbladder, salivary glands, liver, pancreas
___ stores bile
gallbladder
___ secretes bile
liver
which digestive organ that has endocrine and exocrine functions:
pancreas
malignant tumor of connective tissue is (carcinoma or sarcoma?)
sarcoma
CT is ___ tissue
mesenchymal
midbrain is in the __
brain stem
2 types of glioma
glioblastoma and astrocytoma
most common childhood cancer of CNS:
medullablastoma
3 parts of brain stem:
midbrain, pons, medulla oblongata
why is chemo limited in brain cancers?
BBB
most common histology:
lung cancer least associated w/tobacco
adenocarcinoma