Types of Tumours Flashcards
What is a Nevus?
Normal skin lesion
What is a Neoplasm?
Growth of an abnormal lump of cells
What is a Sarcoma?
Tumours In bone or soft tissue
What is a Teratoma?
Type of germ cell tumour
What is a Blastoma?
Tumours in precursor cells. usually in children
What is a lymphoma?
Cancer that begins in the immune system.
Type of blood cancer, when white blood cells reproduce uncontrollably
What is Leukaemia?
Type of blood cancer. distortion, proliferation and development of Leukocytes and their precursors in the blood and bone marrow
What is a carcinoma?
cancer that begins in the skin
What is a carcinoma in situ?
Abnormal cells which haven’t moved from when they first developed
What is Hyerplasia?
An enlargement of an organ due to increase in production of its own cells
What is Hypertrophy?
Increase in growth of muscle cells
What is dysplasia?
Presence of abnormal cells in tissue or organ
What is Anaplasia?
Loss of mature or specialised features of a cell or tissue as In malignant tumours type
