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Haney medterm c21-12
Haney Medterm c21-12
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| A substance, especially a drug, added to a prescription to assist in the action of the main ingredient | adjuvant |
| Treatment of a disease with a substance, especially a drug, that enhances the main ingredient | adjuvant therapy |
| A change in the structure and orientation of cells characterized by a loss of specialization and reversion to a more primitive form | antimetabolite |
| Of or pertaining to a substance or measure that prevents the proliferation of malignant cells | Antineoplastic |
| Non cancerous and therefore not an immediate threat, even though treatment eventually may be required for health or cosmetic reasons | benign |
| A neoplasm characterized by the uncontrolled growth of anaplastic cells that tend to invade surrounding tissue | cancer |
| A substance or agent that causes the development or increases the incidence of cancer | carcinogen |
| A malignant neoplasm | carcinoma |
| A premalignant neoplasm that has not invaded the basement membrane but shows cytologic characteristics of cancer | carcinoma in situ |
| the use of chamical agents to destroy cancer cells on a selective basis | chemotherapy |
| a large nucleic acid molecule found principally in the chromosomes of the nucleus of a cell that is the carrier of genetic information | deocyribonulceic acid |
| a process in development in which unspecialized cells or tissues are sytemically modified and altered to achieve specific and characteristic physical forms. | differentiation |
| enclosed in fibrous or membranous sheaths | encapsulated |
| In radiology, the division of the total dose of radiation into small doses administered at intervals in an effort to minimize tissue damage. | fractionation |
| possessing the ability to invade or penetrate adjacent tissue | infiltrative |
| characterized by a tendency to spread, infiltrate, and intrude | invasive |
| high-energy x-rays that posses the ability to kill cells or retard their growth | ionizing radiaiton |
| an apparatus for accelerating charged subatomic particles used in radiotherapy. | linear accelerator |
| surgical removal of only the tumor and the immediate adjacent breast tissue | lumpectomy |
| tanding to become worse and cause death | malignant |
| the process by which tumor cells spread to distant parts of the body | metastasis |
| a type of cell dicision that results in the fomation of 2 genetically idetical daughter cells | mitosis |
| a growth of more than one kind of neoplastic tissue | mixed-tissue tumor |
| a method of applicaiton | modality |
| an illness or an abnormal condition or quality | morbidity |
| a chande or transformation | mutation |
| any abnormal growth of new tissue | neoplasm |
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