Paul Kalanithi's Medical Terminology

4. An abnormal mass of tissue that forms when cells grow and divide more than they should or do not die when they should.
5. The area of the brain that controls body temperature, hunger, and thirst.
8. A disease caused by an uncontrolled division of abnormal cells in a part of the body.
10. A statistic used to estimate the survival function from lifetime data.
12. An excessive localized enlargement of an artery caused by a weakening of the artery wall.
14. The identification of the nature of an illness or other problem by examination of the symptoms.

1. A type of cancer treatment that uses one or more anti-cancer drugs as part of a standardized chemotherapy regimen.
2. A specially trained medical doctor who diagnoses and treats conditions that affect your nervous system.
3. A medical imaging technique used to obtain detailed internal images of the body.
6. A complex brain structure embedded deep in the temporal lobe. It plays a major role in learning and memory.
7. A facility within a hospital where surgical operations are carried out in an aseptic environment.
9. A corpse that is used by medical students, physicians, and other scientists to study anatomy, identify disease sites, determine causes of death, and provide tissue to repair a defect in a living human being.
11. Records the electrical signals in the heart and can help diagnose heart attacks and irregular heartbeats
13. Member of a therapeutic drug class that reduces pain, decreases inflammation, decreases fever, and prevents blood clots.