Ch 2 Complementary Terms - Exploring Medical Terminology
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apoptosis | programmed cell death
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benign | not malignant
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biological therapy | treatment of cancer with biological response modifiers that work with the immune system
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carcinoma in situ | cancer in the early stage before invading surrounding tissue
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chemotherapy | treatment of cancer with drugs
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encapsulated | enclosed within a capsule, as with benign or malignant tumors that have not spread beyond the capsule of the organ in which it originated
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exacerbation | increase in the severity of a disease or its symptons
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hospice | provides palliative or supportive care for terminally ill patients and their families
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idiopathic | pertaining to disease of unknown origin
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inflammation | localized protective response to injury or tissue destruction characterized by redness, swelling, heat, and pain
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in vitro | within a glass, observable within a test tube
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in vivo | within the living body
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malignant | tending to become progressively worse and to cause death, as in cancer
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morbidity | state of being diseased or unwell; incidence of illness in a population
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mortality | state of being mortal (death) incidence of the number of deaths in a population
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palliative | providing relief but not cure
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radiation therapy | treatment of cancer with a radioactive substance, x-ray, or radiation
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remission | improvement or absence of signs of disease
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