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MI 3.1 Vocab Quiz
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| 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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