Bone, Joint and Muscle Terms

A type of cancer that grows into the muscular wall of the uterus.

The part of the nervous system that controls muscles of internal organs (such as the heart, blood vessels, lungs, stomach, and intestines) and glands (such as salivary glands and sweat glands).

Several tissues share the work at every joint, so pain can come from bone, cartilage, ligament or lining without the others failing.

A drug that is used to treat certain types of muscle spasms and is being studied in the treatment of liver cancer.

A glycosaminoglycan (a type of polysaccharide) found in cartilage and in the cornea of the eye.

A substance that is used to treat rheumatoid arthritis, and is being studied in the treatment of cancer.

Made in the body and eaten in meat, it is the ferry without which long chain fats never reach the furnaces inside a cell.

A drug being studied in the treatment of young adults with bone cancer that has gotten worse or come back.

Long filed as an odd inflammatory reaction, it is now recognized as a clonal growth driven by a mutation in one signaling route.

A benign smooth muscle tumor, usually in the uterus or gastrointestinal tract.

Leiomyosarcoma is a rare malignant tumor arising from smooth muscle cells, most often found in the uterus, abdomen, or retroperitoneum.

A cancer with no lump to find, because the affected cells travel in the bloodstream instead of forming a mass.

Cancer is found in the lining of the chest wall and may also be found in the lining of the lung, the lining of the diaphragm (the thin muscle below the lungs and heart that separates the chest from…

A chronic, inflammatory, connective tissue disease that can affect the joints and many organs, including the skin, heart, lungs, kidneys, and nervous system.

These are the cells that remember, which is why a second encounter with the same organism is dealt with far faster than the first.

One name covers two diseases that differ in nearly everything except the cell they come from: pace, age and urgency.

An area where bone has been dissolved away, showing on an x-ray as a dark hole in an otherwise solid structure.

Leafy greens, nuts, seeds, beans and whole grains supply it, and the kidneys decide how much of it stays.

A soft tissue tumor that begins in a tendon (tough, fibrous, cord-like tissue that connects muscle to bone or to another structure).

A type of benign (not cancer) germ cell tumor (type of tumor that begins in the cells that give rise to sperm or eggs) that often contains several different types of tissue such as hair, muscle, and…