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cerebell/0
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cerebellum responsible for balance, muscle movement
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Dur/o
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Dura Mater Outer most layer of the menenings tough mother protects brain
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Cerebr/o
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Cerebrum thinkin area
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Encephal/o
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Brain
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Gli/o
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glue, parts of the nervous system that support and connect
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Mening/o
Menngi/o |
membranes, meninges: covering around the brain and spinal cord
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My/o
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Muscle
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Myel/o
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spinal cord
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Neur/o
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nerve
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Pont/o
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pons part of the brain between the cerebellum and the medulla
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Radicul/o
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nerve roots
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Thalam/o
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Thalamus: relay center for the brain
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Thec/o
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sheath refers to the meninges
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Vag/o
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vagus nerve;wandering nerve
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Alges/o
-algesia |
excessive sensitivity to pain
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-algia
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pain
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caus/o
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burning
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esthesi/o
-esthesia |
feeling nervous sensation
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kines/o
-kinesia -kinesis -kinetic |
movement
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-lepsy
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seizure
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lex/o
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word, phrase
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-paresis
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slight paralysis; weakness
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-phasia
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speech
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-plegia
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paralysis
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-sthenia
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strength
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syncop/o
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to cut off; faint
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tax/o
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order coordination
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adenoma
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tumor in the gland; benign
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adenocarcinoma
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cancer of the gland; malignant
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sarcoma
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tumor of the flesh or muscle; non cancer
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cystic
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pertaining to a sac of fulid
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necrotic
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pertaining to death of tissue
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inflammatory
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reddness swelling and heat
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polypoid
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polyps
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ulcerating
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open sore
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carcinoma in situ
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has not matastasized
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dysplastic
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bad growth
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follicular
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hair follicle
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nodular
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well defined
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undifferentiated
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hard to tell what it is
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grade
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degree of maturity
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stage
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extent of spread within the body
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metastases
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spreads to distant sites
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electrocautery
fulguration |
destruction of tissue by burning
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incicional biopsy
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needle biopsy
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excisional biopsy
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removal of tumor for diagnosis may be curative
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radiocurable tumor
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cured by radiation
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radioresistant tumor
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not cured by radiation
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palliative therapy
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make patient feel better but can not cure
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-alopecia
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baldness
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mucositis
stomatitis |
inflammation and ulceration of the mucus membranes
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receptors ie estrogen receptors
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tumors that respond to the removal of estrogen by oophorectomy
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alkylating agents
antimetabolites antimitotics |
types of chemotherapy
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adjunct therapy
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assisting primary treatment to help improve it
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benign tumor
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non cancerous
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chemotherapy
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treatment with drugs
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encapsulated
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surrounded by a capsule
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invasive
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having the ability to enter and destroy surrounding tissue
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infiltrated
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extending beyond normal tissue boundries
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morbidity
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the condition of being diseased
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mortality
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condition of being dead
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mutation
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change in the genetic material of a cell
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protocol
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an explicit, detailed plan for treatment
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remission
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absence of symptoms of a disease
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relapse
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return of symptoms of disease
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cac/o
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bad
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cautero
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burn, heat
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chemo
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chemical drug
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muta
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genetic change
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mutageno
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causing genetic change
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onco
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tumor
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blastoma
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immature tumor
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genesis
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formation
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oma
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mass tumor
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plasia
plasm |
formation, growth
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PAP test
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papanicolaou smear
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PSA
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Prostate specific antigen
test for prostate cancer |
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CEA
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carcinoembryonic antigen
rough screen for ovarian cancer and gi tumors |
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CA 125
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Rough screen for ovarian cancer
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bone marrow biopsy
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aspiration of bone marrow tissue
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fiberoptic colonoscopy
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look for polyps
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laparoscopy
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surgery in abdomin
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