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Cancer is a group of diseases that involve abnormal increases in the number of cells, with the potential to invade or spread to other parts of the body. [1] Not all tumors or lumps are cancerous; benign tumors are not classified as being cancer because they do not spread to other parts of the body. [ 1 ]
Doss porphyria/ALA dehydratase deficiency/Plumboporphyria (the disease is known by multiple names) ALD Alcoholic liver disease: ALI Acute lung injury: ALL Acute lymphoblastic lymphoma, acute lymphocytic leukemia: ALS Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis: AMD Age-related macular degeneration: AML Acute myelogenous leukemia: AN Anorexia nervosa: AOCD
Although it has been defined as an extension of pneumoconiosis, there is no scientific evidence for a similar disease related to volcanic silica particle exposures. [8] Subsequently, the word was used in Frank Scully's puzzle book Bedside Manna, after which time, members of the N.P.L. campaigned to include the word in major dictionaries. [9] [10]
Cancer is also euphemised as "the C-word"; [232] [233] [234] Macmillan Cancer Support uses the term to try to lessen the fear around the disease. [235] In Nigeria, one local name for cancer translates into English as "the disease that cannot be cured". [236]
nystagmus that coarsens in amplitude on lateral gaze Brushfield spots: Thomas Brushfield: ophthalmology, genetics: Downs' syndrome or non-pathological: greyish-white spots at periphery of iris Buerger's test: Leo Buerger: general medicine, surgery: peripheral artery disease: pallor of the leg upon elevation Burton line: Henry Burton: toxicology ...
Used as a term of comparison to smallpox. Grippe: Influenza [13] From the French. King's evil: Tuberculous cervical lymphadenitis [14] From the belief that the disease could be cured by a royal touch. Lockjaw: Trismus [15] The term is sometimes used as a synonym for tetanus, which usually first manifests as trismus. Monkeypox: Mpox [16] Muerto ...
Malignancy (from Latin male 'badly' and -gnus 'born') is the tendency of a medical condition to become progressively worse; the term is most familiar as a characterization of cancer. A malignant tumor contrasts with a non-cancerous benign tumor in that a malignancy is not self-limited in its growth, is capable of invading into adjacent tissues ...
Oncology is a branch of medicine that deals with the study, treatment, diagnosis, and prevention of cancer. A medical professional who practices oncology is an oncologist. [1] The name's etymological origin is the Greek word ὄγκος (ónkos), meaning "tumor", "volume" or "mass". [2] Oncology is concerned with: