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Study of disease
Pathology
Excessive bleeding
Hemorrhage
Abnormal tissue mass
Tumor
Break in a bone
Fracture
Disease returns
Relapse
Abnormal/damaged tissue
Lesion
Disease symptoms decrease/disappear
Remission
Present at birth
Congenital
Body response to injury/infectio
inflammation
Wasting/decrease in tissue size
Atrophy
Excess fluid/swelling
Edema
Enlargement of tissue
Hypertrophy
Harmful microorganisms enter the body
infection
Cancerous
malignant
Develops after birth
Acquired
Death of tissue
Necrosis
Condition affecting normal body function
Disease
Noncancerous
Benign
Long-term condition
chronic
Spread of cancer cells from original site to new location
Metastasis
Sudden, short-term condition
Acute
how abnormal the cancer cells look
grading
body-wide, dangerous response to infection (medical emergency)
sepsis
reduced blood flow to tissue
ischemia
how far cancer has spread in the body
stage