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| Regressive change in adult cells which is irreversible. Characteristic of malignancy |
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| Abnormal variations in the size of cells |
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| Irregular or unusual. A word used as a warning from the pathologist to the surgeon that the pathologist is concerned about something but it is not necessarily cancer. |
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| Reversible change in adult cells. Thought of as a state between hyperplasia and neoplasia. Clinician MAY consider this as premalignant. |
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| Special type of inflammation. Charactertized by accumulation of macrophages which may coalesce into giant cells. |
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| Increase of the corneus layer of oral mucosa. May be due to specific disease or secondary to external factors. |
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| Reversible change in a type of adult cell type to another type of adult cell which is not normal to that area of tissue. |
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| Area of new growth which exceeds and is not coordinated with that of the normal surrounding tissue |
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| Cells of the same tissue which have different distinct forms |
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| Abnormal variations in the shape of cells |
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