Unit 2 Body Structure Words

Question 1

Cancerous

Answer 1

Pertaining to cancer

Question 2

Carcinogen

Answer 2

Substance that causes cancer

Question 3

Carcinogenic

Answer 3

Producing cancer

Question 4

Cyanosis

Answer 4

Abnormal condition of blue (caused by inadequate supply of oxygen in the blood)

Question 5

Cytogenic

Answer 5

Producing cells

Question 6

Cytoid

Answer 6

Resembling a cell

Question 7

Cytology

Answer 7

Study of cells

Question 8

Cytoplasm

Answer 8

Cell substance

Question 9

Diagnosis (Dx)

Answer 9

State of complete knowledge (identifying a disease)

Question 10

Dysplasia

Answer 10

Abnormal development

Question 11

Epithelial

Answer 11

Pertaining to epithelium

Question 12

Erythrocyte (RBC)

Answer 12

Red blood cell

Question 13

Erythrocytosis

Answer 13

Increase in number of red blood cells

Question 14

Etiology

Answer 14

Study of causes (of disease)

Question 15

Histology

Answer 15

Study of tissue

Question 16

Hyperplasia

Answer 16

Excessive development

Question 17

Hypoplasia

Answer 17

Incomplete development

Question 18

iatrogenic

Answer 18

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

Question 19

iatrology

Answer 19

Study of medicine

Question 20

Karyocyte

Answer 20

Cell with a nucleus

Question 21

Karyoplasm

Answer 21

Substance of a nucleus

Question 22

Leukocyte (WBC)

Answer 22

White blood cell

Question 23

Leukocytosis

Answer 23

Increase in the number of white blood cells

Question 24

Lipoid

Answer 24

Resembling fat

Question 25

Metastasis

Answer 25

Beyond control (transfer of disease from one organ to another, as in the transfer of malignant tumors)

Question 26

Myopathy

Answer 26

Disease of muscle

Question 27

Neopathy

Answer 27

New disease

Question 28

Neuroid

Answer 28

Resembling a nerve

Question 29

Oncogenic

Answer 29

Causing tumors

Question 30

Oncologist

Answer 30

A physician who studies and treats tumors

Question 31

Oncology

Answer 31

Study of tumors

Question 32

Pathogenic

Answer 32

Producing disease

Question 33

Pathologist

Answer 33

A physician who studies diseases

Question 34

Pathology

Answer 34

Study of disease

Question 35

Prognosis (Px)

Answer 35

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

Question 36

Somatic

Answer 36

Pertaining to the body

Question 37

Somatogenic

Answer 37

Originating in the body

Question 38

Somatopathy

Answer 38

Disease of the body

Question 39

Somatoplasm

Answer 39

Body substance

Question 40

Systemic

Answer 40

Pertaining to a body system

Question 41

Visceral

Answer 41

Pertaining to the internal organs

Question 42

Xanthochromic

Answer 42

Pertaining to yellow color

Question 43

Xanthosis

Answer 43

Abnormal condition of yellow (discoloration)