Medical Language Basics
This term means the identification of a disease.
What is diagnosis?
This term means a new growth or mass.
What is neoplasm?
This is a sample of blood, urine, or body tissue obtained for laboratory testing.
What is a specimen?
This treatment uses pharmaceutical drugs to treat cancer.
What is chemotherapy?
This abbreviated medical term is used for cancer.
What is CA?
This term means the prediction of a possible outcome of a disease.
What is prognosis?
A tumor made up primarily of fat tissue is called this.
What is a lipoma?
This laboratory test examines blood and measures red blood cells, white blood cells, and platelets.
What is a complete blood count with differential (CBC with diff)?
This treatment uses radioactive substances, X-rays, or other radiation to treat cancer.
What is radiation therapy?
This abbreviated medical term is used for diagnosis.
What is Dx?
This term describes a condition that is not malignant and is generally nonrecurring.
What is benign?
This term describes a cancerous tumor that may invade surrounding tissues and spread to other parts of the body.
What is malignant?
This laboratory test examines DNA and may identify changes in genes that can contribute to illness or disease.
What is genetic testing?
This physician specializes in studying and treating tumors.
What is an oncologist?
This abbreviated medical term is used for prognosis.
What is Px?
This term means a lessening or absence of signs of disease.
What is remission?
A tumor composed of epithelial tissue is called this.
epithelioma
A physician removes living tissue so it can be examined under a microscope to help make a diagnosis. This procedure is called this.
What is a biopsy?
This cancer treatment uses biological response modifiers that work with the immune system.
What is biological therapy?
This abbreviated medical term is used for staphylococcus.
What is staph?
Localized, protective response to injury or tissue destruction characterized by redness.
What is inflammation?
A tumor has spread from its original organ to another location in the body. The movement of cells from one organ to another is described by this term.
What is metastasis?
A patient has several laboratory tests performed on a blood sample to provide information about systems such as the kidneys and liver, including glucose and protein levels. What type of laboratory testing is being described?
What is a chemistry panel?
A medical record states that a patient has a cancerous tumor that has spread to surrounding organs. The physician must determine what's wrong, expected outcome, and what they need. Name the three medical terms represented by these concepts.
What are diagnosis, prognosis, and treatment?
This abbreviated medical term is used for pathology.
What is PATH?