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Chap 1

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Acute   Having a quick onset or lasting a short period of time with  
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Asymptomatic   Showing or causing no identifiable symptoms  
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Atrophy   Reduce the size or wasting cells, tissues, or organs  
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Autoantibodies   Antibody acting against its own tissue or organism  
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Autoimmune Disorders   Disease that antibodies forms against and injure the patient own tissues  
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Benign neoplasm   Localized and generally noninvasive lesion  
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Carcinoma   A malignant growth composed of epithelial cells that tends to invade surrounding tissues and gives rise to metastases  
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Chronic   Presenting slowly and persisting over a long period of time  
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Congenital   Existing at and usually before birth and resulting from genetic or environmental factors  
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Degenerative   The deterioration of the body usually associated with the aging process  
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Diagnosis   name of a disease  
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Disease   Any abnormal disturbance of the normal function or structure of a body part, organ or system  
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Dysplasia   Having trouble swallowing  
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Epidemiology   Study of disease in large groups  
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Etiology   Study of the cause and origin of disease  
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Hematogenous Spread   Spread via the blood  
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Hereditary   Genetically transferred from either parent to child and derived from ancestors  
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Hyperplasia   An overdevelopment  
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Hypertrophy   Increase of cell and tissue resulting from increase organ size without a tumor shown  
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Iatrogenic   Pertains to any adverse condition that occurs in a patient as a result of medical treatment  
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Idiopathic   Having no identifiable causative factor  
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Incidence   A statistical measure that refers to the number of new cases of a disease found in a given period  
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Infection   Inflammatory process caused by exposure to some disease causing organism  
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Inflammatory   The body process of destroying, diluting or walling of a localized injurious agent  
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Lesion   General term used to describe the various types of cellular change that can occur in response to a disease  
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Leukemia   A malignant disease of the leukocytes and their precursor cells in the blood and bone marrow  
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Lymphatic spread   Spread via the lympathic system  
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Lymphoma   Neoplastic growth in the lymphatic system  
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Malignant neoplasm   Refer to lesion that grows, spreads, and invades other tissues  
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Manifestations   Observable changes resulting from cellular changes in the disease process  
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Metabolism   Pertaining to the normal physiologic function of the body  
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Metaphase   Conversion of a special type of tissue into a different kind of tissue  
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Metastatic spread   Spread of cancer cell  
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Morbidity rate   Incidences in the population of illness sufficient to interfere with an individual’s normal daily routine  
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Mortality Rate   The number of death from a disease averaged over a population  
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Neoplastic   Pertaining to new or abnormal tissue growth  
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Nosocomial   Diseases that came from in or from the hospital  
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Pathogenesis   Development of disease  
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Prevalence   A statistical measure that refers to the number of cases of a disease found in a given population  
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Prognosis   Prediction of course and outcome for a given disease  
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Sarcoma   A type of tumor often highly malignant, composed of a substance like embryonic connective tissue  
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Seeding   Traveling of cancerous cells to a distant sites or distant organ  
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Sequelae   Condition resulting from a disease  
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Sign   Objective  
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Symptom   Subjective evidences of a disease  
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Syndrome   A group of signs and symptoms that occur together of a specific abnormality  
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Traumatic   Pertaining to the effect of a wound or injury, whether physical or psychic  
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Virulence   The ease with which an organism overcomes body defenses  
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