Mechanisms of Diseases

Environmental substance that causes a reaction

The immune response is too intense (hypersensitive) to an environmental substane

No oxygen, causes cellular injury

Immune bodies. Proteins that the body produces to react to and render antigens harmless

Substances that cause the body some type of harm. Sets off a specific antigen-antibody reaction

Decrease in cell size which leads to a decrease in the size of tissue and organ (a- without trophy- growth)

Immune response attacks itself. Lymphocytes cant identify the bodies own self antigens which are harmless

Not cancerous. Having limited growth and easily removed

An individual who has an ill, thin, and wasted, appearance

Any malignant tumor

Hereditary diseases present at birth

Diseases related to aging

An alteration in size, shape and organization of cells dys- bad or difficult plasia- growth

Enclosed in a capsule

Small intestine route

When saprophytic bacteria become involved in necrotic tissue

An overgrowth in response to some type of stimulus hyper- excessive plasia- growth

An increase in the size of the cell leading to an increase in tissue and organ size hyper- excessive trophy- growth

Not enough oxygen

Immune response is not able to defend the body for lack of leukocytes, primarily, lymphocytes

The area of dead cells when necrosis occurs due to ischemia

Refers to the invasion of microorganisms

Protective immune response that is triggered by any type of injury or irritant

Hypoxia caused by decreased blood flow

Tumors that grow uncontrollably and have finger-like projections that take hold the surrounding tissue making removal difficult

Cellular adaption in which the cell changes into another type of cell meta- changed plasia- growth

To move

Cancer that moves from a site of origin to another secondary site in the body

Disability; state of being diseased

Disability; state of being diseased

Cellular death

Development of a new type of cell with an uncontrolled growth pattern neo- new plasia- growth

Increase in cell number leading to an increase in tissue size

Study of cancer onco- tumor ology- study of

Without immunosuppressant medications, the body's immune system would recognize the organ as foreign and attack it, leading to organ death

Subcutaneous, intramuscular, or intravenous feeding

Total parenteral nutrition

Disease caused by physical injury from an external force

Prioritizing care

Neoplasms