health science vocab
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| Atherosclerosis | A disease of the arteries characterized by the deposition of plaques of fatty material on their inner walls.
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| Collagen | The main structural protein found in animal connective tissue, yielding gelatin when boiled
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| Cuboidal | A epithelium cell having a cube like shape
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| Cutaneous membranes | Soft outer covering of vertebrates & guards the underlying muscles, bones, ligaments, & internal organs.
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| Epithelial tissue | Covers the whole surface of the body.
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| Genitourinary | Of or relating to the genital and urinary organs.
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| Glia | The connective tissue of the nervous system, consisting of several different types of cell associates with neurons.
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| Homeostasis | The tendency towards a relatively stable equilibrium between interdependent elements, specially as maintained by physiological processes.
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| Ketones | A organic compound containing a carbonyl group.
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| Ketonuria | The excretion of abnormally large amounts of ketone bodies in the urine, characteristic of diabetes mellitus, starvation. or other medical conditions.
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| Meninges | Membranes that develop the brain and spinal cord of the central nervous system.
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| Melanoma | Skin cancer (most serious)
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| Neurons | A specialized cell transmitting nerve impulse a nerve cell.
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| Parietal | Of relating to attached to or denoting the wall of the body or of a body cavity or hollow structure.
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| Pseudostratified | Type of epithelium that though comprising only a single layer of cell. has its cells nucleus positioned in a manner suggestive of stratified epithelium.
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| Serous membranes | A mesothelial tissue that lines certain internal cavities of the body forming a smooth transparent, two layered membrane lubricated by a fluid derived from serum.
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| Skeletal muscle | Form of striated muscle tissue which is under the voluntary control of the somatic nervous system.
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| Squamous | Cancer caused by an uncontrolled grown of abnormal squamous cell.
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| Stratified | Epithelium made up of series of layers the cells of each varying in size and shape.
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| Striated muscle | Muscle tissue in which the contractile fibrils in the cells are aligned in parallel bounders, so that their diff. regions from stripes visible in a microscope..
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| Synovial membrane | Soft tissue found between the joint capsule and the joint cavity of synovial joints.
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| Synovium | Same previous
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| Transitional | passage from one condition or one part to another.
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| Visceral | Of or relating to the viscera.
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