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Vocab-Neoplasia Flashcards

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Desmoplasia

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Growth of fibrous or connective tissue. Lesion (tumor) feels firm

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Dysplasia

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Usu. of metaplastic epithelium. Disordered growth (characteristics of malignant neoplasm) but does not invade through basement membrane (yet). Not neoplasms because mild-to-moderate may be reversible. Benign but pre-malignant.

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Carcinoma in situ

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Full thickness dysplasia of an epithelial layer that has not yet invaded through the basement membrane

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Metaplasia

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One type of cell is replaced with another, hardier, cell type. Usu. cuboidal to squamous, e.g. esophageal, bronchial, cervical squamous metaplasia

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Initiator caspases

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8 and 9

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Executioner caspases

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3, for MHD purposes

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