Module 3: Check on Learning and Module Quiz
Chondroma affects the
Bone
Glioma affects the
Brain
-itis
Denotes inflammation
Cachexia is associated with patients who have good nutrition, wasting away of the body, and exhibit starvation.
False
The study of neoplasms or tumors is called ecology.
False
Lipoma affects the
Fat
What if a very simple way of determining if a tumor is malignant or benign?
Look at the suffix of the tumor in question.
A tumor can still be malignant even if it ends in the suffix -oma. True/False
True
Hyperplasia is increase in the size of the body part due to increase in number of cells.
True
There are two types of tumors: benign and malignant.
True
Neuroma is a tumor found in
nervous tissue
Benign tumors grow by ___ and malignant tumors by ___.
"expansion, infiltration"
Chest pain
Angina
Which tumor is comprised of vessels and can be located anywhere in the body?
Angiomas
Rhabdomyoma affects the
Heart
Common name for a MI
Heart Attack
Leiomyoma affects the
Smooth muscle
Glioma is
a tumor involving the neuroglia
This blood disease is characterized by having a lack of clotting factors that stop bleeding.
hemophilia
Nevus or melanoma is a cancer of
skin
Which type of heart disease causes too much blood to pass from the heart into the lungs and results in the "blue baby" effect?
Atrial Septal Defect
Acute cardiac failure
Complete occlusion of coronary artery
Some of the causes of cancer are ___. Choose all correct answers.
Heredity, viruses, environmental factors, and hormones.
Blood disorders are divided into one of three categories. Which one does not apply?
Hemolytic disorders
____ is a form of papilloma that grows with a stem from the underlying tissue.
polyp (?) or wart-like tumor
Why would diseases of the heart and blood vessel be of particular concern to an embalmer?
result in vascular damage that impede introduction of embalming fluid
This hereditary blood disorder primarily affects people of color: African Americans, Native Americans, and Mediterranean people.
sickle cell anemia
Osteoma is
the tumor of bone
Chondroma is
the tumor of cartilage
Papilloma is
the tumor of epithelium in the skin and mucous
Adenoma is
the tumor of glandular epithelium
Angioma is
the tumor of vessels
Leiomyoma is
the tumors of smooth muscle
