Exam #2 (Ch. 3-5, 7)

Front 1

A new abnormal growth is properly called a...

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Neoplasm

Front 2

Within a tumor, development of changes that transform cells into cancer is...

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Progression

Front 3

The spread of the cancer cells from the original tumor to distant sites is...

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Metastasis

Front 4

A malignant growth of glandular tissue is named:

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Adenocarcinoma

Front 5

This type of tumor is usually encapsulated and has defined edges:

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Benign

Front 6

Cancer affecting epithelial tissues, skin, and mucous membranes:

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Carcinomas

Front 7

Cancer affecting affect bone, muscle, and cartilage, and are highly malignant:

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Sarcomas

Front 8

A common fatty tumor is _____.

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Lipoma

Front 9

_________ is a method of classifying a tumor location, lymph node involvement, and the presence of metastasis.

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Staging

Front 10

A cycle cell protein that regulates growth...

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Cyclin

Front 11

All diseases caused by microorganisms are properly called:

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Infectious

Front 12

An insect transmits a pathogen from an animal to humans. The insect is the _____ for this infection.

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Vector

Front 13

Rod-shaped bacteria are called:

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Bacilli

Front 14

Both roundworms and flatworms are called...

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Helminths

Front 15

Spherical, round-shaped bacteria are called:

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Cocci

Front 16

A re-emerging disease with increased antibiotic resistance is ________.

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Tuberculous

Front 17

________ cannot reproduce without a host.

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Viruses

Front 18

A chemical method to characterize bacteria is...

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Gram Staining

Front 19

Bacteria and fungi are both capable of producing...

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Cell walls

Front 20

Spiral-shaped bacterial cells are called...

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Spirilla

Front 21

In a normal heart, blood flows from the left atrium into the:

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Left Ventricle

Front 22

The bicuspid valve normally maintains one-way blood flow into the:

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Left Ventricle

Front 23

A section of dead tissue in the myocardium is called a(n):

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Infarct

Front 24

Hypertrophy of the myocardium due to excess work in pumping against high blood pressure produces what type of heart disease?

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Hypertensive heart disease

Front 25

Blood can flow back into the atrium and cause pulmonary hypertension in what type of valvular disease?

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Mitral Insufficiency

Front 26

The tetralogy of Fallot involved four defects in the structure of the heart, including:

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Pulmonary Stenosis

Front 27

Contraction of the ventricles is called ________.

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Systole

Front 28

____________________ are two names for the left heart valve.

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Mitral and Bicuspid

Front 29

_____ follows chronic lung disease and is characterized by right sided heart failure.

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Cor Pulmonale

Front 30

Left-sided congestive heart failure produces ___________ in the patient.

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Pulmonary Edema

Front 31

Each human cell contains _______ chromosomes divided into ______ pairs.

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46; 23

Front 32

If the two members of a pair of genes are alike, they are said to be:

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Homozygous

Front 33

Congenital diseases are those that are:

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present at birth or shortly thereafter

Front 34

A genetic disease that always appears in the children of one affected parent must be:

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an autosomal dominant trait

Front 35

If everyone who inherits one copy of a defective allele develops the related disorder, that allele is ________________.

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Dominant

Front 36

Huntington's chorea is inherited as a ______________ trait.

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Dominant, Autosomal

Front 37

Congenital defects are produced by ____________.

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Environmental Influences

Front 38

An autosomal recessive condition causing abnormal lipid metabolism in the brain, with progressive mental and physical retardation, and death by the age of 4 is _________.

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Tay-Sachs

Front 39

The incidence of __________ is higher in mothers over the age of 35.

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Down syndrome

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Is this actually helping you?

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Yes...