Terminology

Question 1

autonomy

Answer 1

unregulated cellular proliferation

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anaplasia

Answer 2

loss of cellular differentiation, therefore loss of cell function

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metastasis

Answer 3

spread of cancer to other tissues or organs

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liposarcoma

Answer 4

cancer of adipose tissue

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neoplasm

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new growth, not all are malignant, some are benign (do not spread)

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ischemia

Answer 6

inadequate blood supply to organs

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Tropism

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the affinity of the primary tumour to a specific distant site

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chromatolysis

Answer 8

form of apoptosis

swelling of a neuron

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Neuonaphagia

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phagocytosis and inflammatory responses caused by a dead neurone damaging neighbouring cells

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intraneuronal inclusions

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distinctive structures formed in the nucleus or cytoplasm

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Astrogliosis

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astrocytes respond to local tissue injury by proliferation : glial scar
injury such as - wounds, contusions, hemorrhages, tumours

unchecked proliferation can lead to neoplastic transformation - glioma

Question 12

ependymal cell injury

Answer 12

CSF production and transfer altered - due to infection of the ventricles
intraventricular haemorrhaging

Question 13

name three causes of CNS pressure injury

Answer 13

edema
CSF ^ volume
lesion (tumour)