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Exam 4-Lec3 biol 116
Cancer
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Hyperplasia | increase in # of normal cells |
| Metaplasia | change from one cell type to another, or invasion of different cell type which induces growth |
| Dysplasia | growth of immature cells (un-developed) |
| neoplasia | abnormal growth of cells (usually assigned to abnormal cells)-->Most of normal cancers |
| Desmoplasia | growth of fibrous or connective tissue |
| tumor | non-specific term meaning lump or swelling (often a synonym for neoplasm) -you can also have tumors with non-neoplastic cells tho |
| Cancer | any malignant neoplasm or tumor |
| Metastasis | discontinuous spread of a malignant neoplasm to distant sites -move from point A to point B -normal cells to do not move from one place to another |
| Carcinoma | neoplasia of epithelial -predominant cancer |
| Sarcoma | neoplasia of muscle or endothelial -all internal..not exposed to the outside environment |
| Tetracarcinoma | neoplasm is of mixed- of mixed cell lineages |
| epithelium | outside |
| endothelium | inside |