Teminology

Question 1

a benign tumour formed from glandular structures in epithelial tissue.

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Adenoma

Question 2

invasive and destructive cellular growth, as in cancer

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Malignancy

Question 3

actual change in cell size, shape, uniformity, arrangement, and structure

Answer 3

dysplasia

Question 4

the percentage of a population that is affected by a particular disease at a given time

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prevalence

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describes illnesses that are caused by exposure to the health care environment

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nosocomial

Question 6

a cluster of clinical manifestations and laboratory and other diagnostic tests that fit a recognizable, predictable pattern

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syndrome

Question 7

the rate of occurrence of a health condition at any given time

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incidence

Question 8

increase in cell size

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hypertrophy

Question 9

cancer causing

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oncogenic

Question 10

the death rate resulting from a disease

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mortality

Question 11

the term used to describe illnesses that are the inadvertent result of medical treatment

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iatrogenic

Question 12

when an epidemic spreads across continents

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pandemic

Question 13

changing of one cell type to another

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metaplasia

Question 14

somewhere in duration and severity between acute and chronic

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subacute

Question 15

describes a condition that does not have a clear etiology

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idiopathic

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disorderly process of cell death associated with inflammation

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necrosis

Question 17

an indicator that is reported by an ill individual and is often considered a “subjective” manifestation

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symptom

Question 18

decrease in the size of the cell

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atrophy

Question 19

a poor quality of life resulting from a disease

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morbidity

Question 20

relating to disease, the observable or measurable expression of the altered health condition

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sign

Question 21

the irreversible deviant development of cells resulting in the formation of neoplasms

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neoplasia

Question 22

programmed cell death that is prompted by a genetic signal and designed to replace old cells with new; also known as “cellular suicide”

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apoptosis

Question 23

a condition in which the incidence and prevalence are stable and predictable

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endemic

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the cause of the disease

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etiology

Question 25

disease persisting for a long time or constantly recurring (generally longer than 6 months)

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chronic

Question 26

sudden in onset of disease lasting a short time (days to months)

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acute