Complementary Terms Word Scramble
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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 |
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