Biology
- Intro To Cancer
Cancer starts as a genetic mutation in a few cells. The mutation can be due to radiation or some genetic problem. The cells then reproduce without stopping. The cancer cells find a place and then continue to reproduce until they create a tumor. The image...
- Teratoma
Term: teratoma Literally meaning: ?unusual condition, monstrous tumor? Origin: Anc Greek?????/teras (=unusual occurrence or phenomenon, monster) +-???/oma(=complete set of, or a condition) Coined/Historyin 1863, by German physician Rudolf Virchow (1821-1905)...
- Pheochromocytoma
Term: pheochromocytomaLiterally meaning:Origin: Anc Greek?????/pheos(= dusky, dim)+?????-/chromo-(=combining form denoting color)+????-/cyto- (=-cyte combining form meaning ?cell? derived from anc Greek ??????/kytion/cytion=box, container) +-???/-oma...
- Angioblastoma Or Tufted Angioma
Term: angioblastoma or Tufted angiomaOrigin: Anc Greek Harvey Cushing (1869 - 1939)??????-/angeio-(=vessel, receptacle), combining forms that are used as prefix meaning a vessel > ?????/aggos(=tube)+ ???????/blastos(=germ) +???/-oma(=suffix meaning...
- Hamartoma
Term: hamartoma Origin: Anc Greek???????/hamartia(=sin, quilt, crime, pity)-???/oma(=complete set of, or a condition.)The Greek word "hamartia" is translated in medical terminology as a ?failure? meaning a tumor formed from malformed rather than truly...
Biology
blastoma
Term: blastoma
Origin: Anc Greek
??????> blastos (=sprout, germ)
>???-??/valo(=push, throw) + ??????/istimi(=put)
+ -???/-oma(=-oma, suffix meaning a state or a condition eg disease condition)
Coined
In 1961 Spencer coined the term pulmonary ?blastoma? instead of ?embryoma of lung? postulating that this tumour originated from primitive pluripotential mesoderm.
Definition
A blastoma is a type of cancer that is caused by embryonic cells, often called blasts.
The suffix (-blastoma) is used to imply a tumor of primitive, incompletely differentiated cells, i.e., osteoblastoma (a bone tumor) and retinoblastoma (a tumor of the retina), chondroblastoma is composed of cells resembling the precursor of chondrocytes, glioblastoma and medulloblastoma (types of brain tumors), hepatoblastoma (a liver tumor), nephroblastoma (Wilms tumor of the kidney), neuroblastoma (a childhood tumor of neural origin).
- Intro To Cancer
Cancer starts as a genetic mutation in a few cells. The mutation can be due to radiation or some genetic problem. The cells then reproduce without stopping. The cancer cells find a place and then continue to reproduce until they create a tumor. The image...
- Teratoma
Term: teratoma Literally meaning: ?unusual condition, monstrous tumor? Origin: Anc Greek?????/teras (=unusual occurrence or phenomenon, monster) +-???/oma(=complete set of, or a condition) Coined/Historyin 1863, by German physician Rudolf Virchow (1821-1905)...
- Pheochromocytoma
Term: pheochromocytomaLiterally meaning:Origin: Anc Greek?????/pheos(= dusky, dim)+?????-/chromo-(=combining form denoting color)+????-/cyto- (=-cyte combining form meaning ?cell? derived from anc Greek ??????/kytion/cytion=box, container) +-???/-oma...
- Angioblastoma Or Tufted Angioma
Term: angioblastoma or Tufted angiomaOrigin: Anc Greek Harvey Cushing (1869 - 1939)??????-/angeio-(=vessel, receptacle), combining forms that are used as prefix meaning a vessel > ?????/aggos(=tube)+ ???????/blastos(=germ) +???/-oma(=suffix meaning...
- Hamartoma
Term: hamartoma Origin: Anc Greek???????/hamartia(=sin, quilt, crime, pity)-???/oma(=complete set of, or a condition.)The Greek word "hamartia" is translated in medical terminology as a ?failure? meaning a tumor formed from malformed rather than truly...