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| non-small cell lung cancer |
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| What does NSCLC stand for? |
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| accounts for 90% of lung cancers and comprises of adenocarcinomas and squamous cells |
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| What does SCLC stand for? |
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| derives from small round oat cells found in pulmonary epithelium |
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| abnormal condition caused by dust in the lungs, with chronic inflammation, infection, and bronchitis |
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| A type of penumoconiosis caused by coal |
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| combined form meaning coal |
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| another name for black lung disease |
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| type of pneumoconiosis caused by asbestos |
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| combined form meaning asbestos |
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| a form of pneumoconiosis caused y silica or glass |
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| combined form meaning rocks |
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| another name for grinder's disease (when caused by glass) |
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| acute inflammation and infection of alveoli, which fill with pus or products of the inflammatory reaction |
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fluid, blood, cells, and debris that filter from
cells or capillaries ooze into lesioins or areas of inflammation |
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| fluid-filled area wthin the lungs as seen on a chest x-ray or CT scan |
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| pneumonia that involves an entire lobe of a lung |
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| type of pneumonia commin in infants and the elderly--involves patchy abscesses in the lung parenchyma |
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| community-acquired pneumonia |
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| pneumonia acquired from a contagious respiatory infection |
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| hospital acquired pneumonia |
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| pneumonia acquired during hospitalization |
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| another name for hospital acquired pneumonia |
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| pneumonia caused by food or vomit loding in the bronchi or lungs as a result of aspiration |
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| large collection of pus due to a bacterial infection in the lungs |
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| fluid in the air sacs and bronchioles |
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| What the abbreviation PE stands for? |
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| clot or other material lodges in the vessels of the lung |
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| an area of necrotic tissue in the lung |
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| formation of scar tissue in the connective tissue of the lungs |
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| chronic inflammatory disease in which small nodules (granulomas) develop in the lungs, lymph nodes, and other organs |
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