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MI 3.1 Vocab Quiz

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cancer A malignant tumor of potentially unlimited growth that expands locally and systemically.
risk factors Something which increases risk or susceptibility.
MRI a noninvasive diagnostic technique that produces computerized images of internal body tissues and is based on nuclear magnetic resonance of atoms within the body induced by the application of radio waves.
Osteosarcoma a cancer derived from bone or containing bone tissue.
biopsy the removal and examination of tissue, cells, or fluids from the living body.
diagnostic imaging technologies that doctors use to look inside your body for clues about a medical condition; includes X-rays, CT scans, nuclear medicine scans, MRI scans and ultrasound.
oncogenes a gene having the potential to cause a normal cell to become cancerous.
cell cycle an ordered sequence of events in the life of a eukaryotic cell, from its origin in the division of a parent cell until its own division into two.
x-rays to examine, treat, or photograph with X-rays.
bone scan a test that detects areas of increased or decreased bone metabolism; test is performed to identify abnormal processes involving the bone such as tumor, infection, or fracture.
DNA microarray a microarray of immobilized single-stranded DNA fragments of known nucleotide sequence that is used especially in the identification and sequencing of DNA samples and in the analysis of gene expression (as in a cell or tissue).
radiology a branch of medicine concerned with the use of radiant energy (as X-rays or ultrasound) in the diagnosis and treatment of disease.
proto-oncogenes A normal cellular gene corresponding to an oncogene; a gene with a potential to cause cancer but that requires some alteration to become an oncogene.
apoptosis The changes that occur within a cell as it undergoes programmed cell death, which is brought about by signals that trigger the activation of a cascade of suicide proteins in the cell destined to die.
CT scan a sectional 3-dimensional view of the body constructed by computed tomography.
hierarchical clustering creates groups so that objects within a group are similar to each other and different from objects in other groups.
Pearson Correlation Coefficient a number between –1 and 1 that measures the strength and direction of the relationship between two variables.
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