pathognomonic
Having to do with a sign or symptom that is specific to a certain disease.
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62 matchespathologic fracture
A broken bone caused by disease, often by the spread of cancer to the bone.
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The stage of cancer (extent of cancer in the body) that is based on how the cells in samples of tissue look under a microscope.
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A method used to determine the stage of cancer (extent of cancer in the body).
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The doctor whose name appears on the report that names the disease, usually without ever having met the person it describes.
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The document that turns a piece of removed tissue into a diagnosis, and the basis on which most cancer treatment is planned.
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The study of diseased cells and tissues using a microscope.
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A doctor who never meets the patient, yet whose reading of a few slides can settle a diagnosis nothing else can settle.
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A specialist who evaluates and treats people with communication and swallowing problems.
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A pathologist's word for tumor cells so poorly formed that the tissue they grew out of can no longer be recognized.
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The extra stain, antibody panel or gene test that turns an inconclusive slide into a named diagnosis.
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A pathologist's word for cells that look wrong under the microscope without looking wrong enough to be cancer.
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/ BY-op-see /
Removal of cells or tissue for microscopic examination.
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A blast is an immature precursor cell, most often found in the bone marrow, that has not yet developed into a mature blood cell type.
Read definitionbone fracture
A medical condition in which there is a break in the continuity of the bone.
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An older umbrella name for lung cancer arising in the airway lining, still met in pathology reports and textbooks.
Read definitioncell differentiation
How one fertilized egg becomes hundreds of cell types without changing its genes, and the yardstick a pathologist uses to grade a tumor.
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A solid lump made of leukemia cells growing outside the marrow, which can appear before anything abnormal shows up in the blood.
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A shape rather than an event: the cell was never cut, and the folded outline is simply what a pathologist reports seeing.
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Contiguous structures or areas of tissue are directly touching or immediately adjacent, without any gap or intervening structure between them.
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