Week 1 Pt Care Vocab

4. A specially trained doctor who diagnoses and treats cancer.
6. The internal environment of the body that is compatible with life. A steady state that is created by all the body systems working together to provide a consistent and unvarying internal environment.
8. Wavelike motion.
10. Substances created by microorganisms, plants, or animals that are poisonous to humans.
13. Protein substances, produced in the blood or tissues in response to a specific antigen, that destroy or weaken the antigen.
16. A disease-causing organism.
18. A broad, dome-shaped muscle used for breathing that separates the thoracic and abdominopelvic cavities.
19. Contraction of the muscles, causing narrowing of the inside tube of the vessel.
20. Rod-shaped structures found in the cell's nucleus; they contain genetic information.

1. Word parts that appear at the end of terms.
2. An examination using a scope with a camera attached to the long, thin tube that can be inserted into the body.
3. Process of viewing living tissue that has been removed for the purpose of diagnosis or treatment.
5. Structures inside of the cell that have specific functions to maintain the cell.
7. Substances that stimulate the production of an antibody when introduced into the body.
9. Located between cells.
11. A cell division process by which two daughter cells are formed from one parent cell.
12. The study of disease.
14. A physician specially trained in the nature and cause of disease.
15. A rapidly dividing cancer cell that has little to no similarity to normal cells.
17. Word parts that appear at the beginning of terms.