Ch 18
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| alveol/o | small sac
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| cac/o | bad
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| chem/o | chemical, drug
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| cauter/o | burn, heat
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| cyst/o | sac or fluid
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| fibr/o | fibers
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| follicul/o | small glandular sacs
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| fungi | fungus, mushroom
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| medull/o | soft, inner part
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| mucos/o | mucous membrane
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| mut/a | genetic change
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| mutagen/o | causing genetic change
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| necr/o | death
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| onc/o | tumor
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| papill/o | nipple like
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| pharmc/o | chemical, dry
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| plas/o | formation
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| ple/o | many, more
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| polyp/o | polyp
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| radi/o | rays, x-rays
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| sarc/o | flesh
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| scirrh/o | hard
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| xer/o | dry
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| -blastoma | immature tumor
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| -genesis | formation
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| -oma | mass, tumor
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| -plasia | formation, growth
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| -plasm | formation, growth
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| -supression | to stop
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| -therapy | treatment
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| ana- | backward
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| apo- | off, away
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| brachy- | short (distance)
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| epi- | upon
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| meta- | beyond, change
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| prot/o | first
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| tele- | far
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| adjuvant therapy | assisting primary treatment
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| anaplasia | loss of differentiation of cells;reversion to a more primitive cell type
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| angiogenesis | process of forming new blood vessel
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| antibiotics | chemical substance, produced by bacteria or primitive plants. They inhibit the growth of cell and are used in cancer chemotherapy
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| apoptosis | programmed cell death. normal cell undergo apoptosis when damaged or aging. Some cancer cells have lost the ability to undergo apoptosis and they live foever
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| benign tumor | noncancerous growth
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| carcinogens | agents that cause cancer, chemicals and drugs, radiation and viruses
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| carcinoma | cancerous tumor made up of cells of epithelial origin
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| viral oncogens | pieces of DNA that when broken down or dislocated can cause a normal cell to become malignant
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| chemotherapy | treatment with drugs
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| dedifferentiation | loss of differentiation of cells; reversion to a more primitive, embryonic cell type; anaplaia or undifferentiation.
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| deoxyribonucleic acid | genetic material within the nucleus of a cell; controls cell division and protein synthesis
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| differentiation | specialization of cells; unspecialized cells are modified and altered to form specific and characteristic types and functions
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| encapsulated | surrounded by a capsule; benign tumors are encapsulated
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| infiltrative | extending beyond normal tissue bounderies
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| invasive | having the ability to enter and destroy surrounding tissue
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| irradiation | exposure to any form of radiant energy such as light, heat, or x-rays
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| malignant tumor | tending to become worse and result in death; having the characteristics of invasive, anaplasia, metastasis
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| metastatsis | spread of malignant tumor to a secondary site
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| mutation | change in the genetic material (DNA) of a cell; may be caused by chemicals or viruses or may occur spontaneously
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| neoplasm | new growth benign or malignant tumor
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| palliative | relieving but not curing symptoms
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| radiation | energy carried by a stream of particles
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| relapse | return of symptoms of disease
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| remission | partial or complete disappearance of symptoms of disease
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