Fhd Introduction To Abnormal Cell Growth

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Define: Dysplasia

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Enlargement of an organ or tissue by the proliferation of cells of an abnormal type, as a developmental disorder or an early stage in the development of cancer

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Define: Neoplasia

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The formation or presence of a new, abnormal growth of tissue

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Define 'Hyperplasia'

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Increase in number of cells ina n organ or tissue

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Define 'Hypertrophy'

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Increase in cell size

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Define 'Atrophy'

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Shrinkage in cell size by loss of cell substance

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Define 'Metaplasia'

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Reversible change in which one adult cell type is replaced by another adult cell type belonging to the same histeogenic background (normal in response to stress - cell that replaces can cope with it)

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Define 'Dysplasia'

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Abnormal development of part of the body

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Define 'neoplasm'

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Growth on tissue: a tumour or tissue containing a growth

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Define 'Neoplasia'

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Abnormal proliferation of cells

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Define 'Metastasis'

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Transmission of cancerous cells from an original site to one or more sites elsewhere in the body, usually by way of the blood vessels or lymphatics.

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Define 'Anaplasia'

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Loss of distinctive cell features: the reversion of cells, usually within a tumour, to a simpler or less differentiated form