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