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Unit 2 pt 5 Flashcards

1
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Cancerous

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Pertaining to cancer

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2
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Carcinogen

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Substance that causes cancer

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3
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Carcinogenic

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Producing cancer

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Cyanosis

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

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5
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Cytogenic

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Producing cells

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Cytoid

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Resembling a cell

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Cytology

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Study of cells

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Cytoplasm

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Cell substance

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Diagnosis (Dx)

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State of complete knowledge (identifying a disease)

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Dysplasia

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Abnormal development

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Epithelial

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Pertaining to epithelium

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Erythrocyte (RBC)

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Red (blood) cell

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Erythrocytosis

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Increase in the number of red (blood) cells

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14
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Etiology

A

Study of causes (of diseases)

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15
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Histology

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Study of tissue

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16
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Hyperplasia

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Excessive development (number of cells)

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Hypoplasia

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Incomplete development (of an organ or tissues)

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18
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Iatrogenic

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

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Iatrology

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Study of medicine

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Karyocyte

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Cell with a nucleus

21
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Karyoplasm

A

Substance of a nucleus

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Leukocyte (WBC)

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White (blood) cell

23
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Leukocytosis

A

Increase in the number of white (blood) cells

24
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Lipoid

A

Resembling fat

25
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Metastasis (pl. metastases)(mets)

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

26
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Myopathy

A

Disease of the muscle

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Neopathy

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New disease

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Neuroid

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Resembling a nerve

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Oncogenic

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Causing tumors

30
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Oncologist

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Physician who studies and treats tumors

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Oncology

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Study of tumors (a branch of medicine concerned with the study of malignant tumors)

32
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Pathogenic

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Producing disease

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Pathologist

A

Physician who studies diseases (examines biopsies and performs autopsies to determine the cause of disease or of death)

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Pathology

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Study of disease (a branch of medicine dealing with the study of the causes of disease and death)

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Prognosis (Px)

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

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Somatic

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Pertaining to the body

37
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Somatogenic

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Originating in the body (organic as opposed to psychologic)

38
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Somatopathy

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Disease of the body

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Somatoplasm

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Body substance

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Systemic

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Pertaining to a (body) system (or the body as a whole)

41
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Visceral

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Pertaining to the internal organs

42
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Xanthrochromic

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Pertaining to yellow color

43
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Xanthosis

A

Abnormal condition of yellow (discoloration)

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