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| Study of body structures in any level |
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| Study of functions of organ/structure (all processes) |
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| Study of disease processes |
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| Any condition that is other than normal (abnormal lab value, clinical signs and symptoms) |
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| State of equilibrium of the internal environment of the body regulated by complex mechanism |
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| Disease or defect present at birth, developed in uterus. Can apparent immediately or remain latent until later |
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| Disease transferred from genes of parent(s) to genes of child |
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| Cells in the fetus dont migrate to the proper location, structures fuse or divide improperly |
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| Environmental factors that affect the fetus in uterus, causing chromosomal or developmental abnormalities |
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| Physical injury caused by an external force |
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| Acceleration-Deceleration, cuts and punctures, poisons and radiation, burns |
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| Invasion of the body by a foreign organism, in favorable conditions for organism it will multiply and damage cells and tissue |
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| Bacteria, virus, fungus and parasites |
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| Disease with unknown or uncertain cause |
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| Disuse or wasting of tissue, cell size decrease, shrinking of organ |
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| Increasing of cell size, enlarging of organ |
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| Increasing of cell number, enlarging of organ |
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| New abnormal cell growing |
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| Injured or damaged cell death |
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| Localized tumor, will not invade the organ, will not spread to other organs |
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| Slow rate of growth, well encapsulated, is not invading, compressing the tissue, will not reoccur after removal, cold spot |
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| Tumor composed of connective tissue |
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| Tumor composed of muscle (common in the uterus, called Fibroma because of a connective tissue covering |
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| Tumor composed of fat (common under the skin) |
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| Tumor composed of epithelial tissue (grows from the lining of organs, polyp of GB, wart of skin) |
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| Tumor composed of glandular epithelial tissue (can be found in liver, kidneys, pancreas, breast) |
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| Serous or mucinous fluid secreted by epithelial tissue that becomes cystic (commonly found in ovaries) |
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| Invasive tumor that destroys the host tissue, spreads to other organs resulting in death of the organism |
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| Malignant neoplasm (tumor) |
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| Fast rate of growth, not well encapsulated, invades to host tissue, spreads to distant organs, can reoccur after removal, hot spot |
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| Spreading of malignant tumor, can be spread via blood, lymph or by direct contact with adjacent tissue. |
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| Increased blood supply to the area (Color) |
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| Fluids released into the tissue to dilute toxic agents (Tumor) |
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| Tissue temperature increase because of increased blood supply, leads to fever (Calor) |
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| Pain can be localized or referred to another area in the body (Dolor) |
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| Ultimate result of inflammation, this can be reversed (Pallor) |
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| After the body is exposed to infection, body is building resistance to future infections |
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| Formation of fibrous or scar tissue, can affect tissue function if its big |
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| If disease condition repeats its termed CHRONIC |
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| Healing process may result in hematoma formation; its a blood-filled tumor or blood clot. (sonographically appears like a cyst) |
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| Infections usually are leading to abscess formation, localized pus collection. It is caused by pyogenic collection |
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| Necrosis cases, if considerable amount of tissue is affected its termed Gangrene. Gangrene will spread to adjacent tissue and must be excised (surgically removed) before healing will take place |
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