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| The complete set of genes in a chromosome of each cell of a specific organism |
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| The study of the genome and its producs and interactions |
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| The study of the genome and how it can be used in the cause, treatment, and prevention of disease |
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| Any therapeutic procedure in which genes are intentionally introduced into human body cells to achieve gene repair, gene suppression, or gene addition |
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| The basic unit of all living things |
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| Forms the boundary of the cell |
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| The largest structure within the cell, usually spherical and centrally located |
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| Located in the nucleus of the cell. There are 46 chromosomes in all normal human cells (with the exception of mature sex cells) |
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| Regions within the chromosome; determine hereditary characteristics |
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| DNA (deoxyribonucleic acid) |
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| Comprises each gene; is a chemical that regulates the activities of the cell |
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| Group of similar cells that performs a specific task |
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| Composed of cells that have a special ability to contract, usually producing movement |
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| Found in the nerves, spinal cord, and brain; responsible for coordinating and controlling body activities |
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| Connects, supports, penetrates, and encases various body structures |
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| The major covering of the external surface of the body; forms membranes that line body cavities and organs and is the major tissue in glands |
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| Two or more kinds of tissues that together perform special body functions |
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| Group of organs that work together to perfrom complex body functions |
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| Space inside the skull (cranium) containing the brain |
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| Space inside the spinal column containing the spinal cord |
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| Space containing the heart, aorta, lungs, esophagus, trachea, and bronchi |
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| Space containing the stomach, intestines, kidneys, liver, gallbladder, pancreas, spleen, and ureters |
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| Space containing the urinary bladder, certain reproductive organs, parts of the large intestine, and the rectum |
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| Both the pelvic and abdominal cavities |
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| cancer (a disease characterized by the unregulated, abnormal growth of new cells) |
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| physician, medicine (also means treatment) |
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| painful, abnormal, difficult, labored |
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| below, incomplete, deficient |
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| substance or agent that produces or causes |
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| abnormal condition (means increase when used with blood cell word roots) |
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| cancerous tumor composed of glandular tissue |
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| tumor composed of glandular tissue (benign) |
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| cancerous tumor (malignant) |
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| tumor of green color (malignant, arising from myeloid tissue) |
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| tumor composed of epithelium |
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| tumor composed of fiber (fibrous tissue) |
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| malignant tumor composed of fiber (fibrous tissue) |
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| tumor of smooth muscle (benign) |
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| malignant tumor of smooth muscle |
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| tumor composed of fat (benign) |
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| malignant tumor composed of fat |
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| cancerous black tumor (malignant) |
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| black tumor (primarily of the skin) |
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| tumor composed of muscle (benign) |
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| new growth (of abnormal tissue or tumor) |
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| tumor composed of nerve (benign) |
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| tumor of striated muscle (benign) |
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| malignant tumor of striated muscle |
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| tumor composed of connective tissue (such as bone or cartilage) (highly malignant) |
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| not malignant, nonrecurrent, favorable for recovery |
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| cancer in the early stage before invading surrounding tissue |
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| treatment of cancer with drugs |
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| enclosed in a capsule, as with benign tumors |
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| increase in the severity of a disease or its symptoms |
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| pertaining to disease of unknown origin |
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| response to injury or destruction of tissue characterized by redness, swelling, heat, and pain |
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| within a glass, observable within a test tube |
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| tending to become progessively worse and to cause death, as in cancer |
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| treatment of cancer with a radioactive substance, x-ray, or radiation (also called radiation oncology and radiotherapy) |
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| substance that causes cancer |
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| abnormal condition of blue (bluish discoloration of the skin caused by inadequate supply of oxygen in the blood) |
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| Complementary and Alternative Medicine |
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| Used in conjunction with conventional medicine |
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| Used in place of conventional medicine |
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| The combination of mainstream medical therapies and evidenced-based CAM therapies |
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| study of causes (of diseases) |
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| excessive development (number of cells) |
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| incomplete development (of an organ or tissues) |
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| produced by a physician (the unexpected results from a treatment prescribed by a physician) |
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| increase in the number of white (blood) cells |
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| beyond control (transfer of disease from one organ to antoher, as in the transfer of malignant tumors) |
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| a physician who studies and treats tumors |
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| study of tumors (a branch of medicine concerned with the study of malignant tumors) |
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| a physician who studies diseases (examines biopsies and performs autopsies to determine the cause of disease or death) |
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| study of disease (a branch of medicine dealing with the study of the causes of diseases and death) |
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| state of before knowledge (prediciton of the outcome of disease) |
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| pertaining to a (body) system (or the body as a whole) |
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| pertaining to the internal organs |
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| pertaining to yellow color |
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| abnormal condition of yellow (discoloration) |
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