| adenocarcinoma | | Abnormal cells, but no actual tumor found. Leukemia and Lymphoma are examples of this. (2words, no space) |
| Lobular | | synovial tissue |
| Schirrous | | malignant epithelial neoplasms (root) |
| rhabdomyo | | meningio |
| anaplasia | | colon, glandular epithelial tissue, malignant (2words, no space) |
| chondro | | Pathologist determines |
| blastoma | | glandular |
| fibrous | | placenta epithelial malignant |
| Stage | | cell of origin: bile duct cells |
| monster | | fat connetive tissue, malignant tumor |
| Gross | | cartilaginous benign |
| choriocarcinoma | | osteo |
| liquidneoplasm | | lymphatic cells |
| hamartoma | | lymph vessel, benign |
| Sarcoma | | kidney/nephron origin, poorly differentiated, high grade malignant |
| Seeding | | cell of origin is cartilage |
| meninges | | The route in which ovarian cancer cells reach the peritonel |
| leiomyosarcoma | | malignant epithelial that did not start in the tissue it is found in (2words, no space) |
| myxo | | neoplasm has firm, gritty consistency, like unripe pear |
| Malignant | | malignant mesenchymal neoplasms (root) |
| colonicadenocarcinoma | | complete dedifferentiation (descriptive term) |
| cervix | | cancer of lymphocytes; always malignant (named wrong) |
| metasticcarcinoma | | Poorly demarcated, metastic, rapidly growing |
| synovia | | myo |
| Desmoplastic | | skeletal muscle |
| cholangio | | Clinician determines |
| lymphagnioma | | High grade, malignant, thought to arise from embryonic tissues |
| hemangio | | gloma tissue, involved in thermo regulation |
| lympho | | fibro |
| nephroblastoma | | if it ends with ____ it is probably benign |
| glomangio | | cystic mass that has glandular cell elements |
| cauliflower | | Almost always benign, only tissues that would normally be present in that organ |
| adeno | | greatest cancer killer in females worldwide |
| melanoma | | filled with fluid, not solid |
| carcin | | terato |
| pheochromocyto | | smooth muscle |
| chorio | | slime like or of extra cellular matrix origin |
| leiomyo | | number 1 cancer that kills male and females in the US |
| mesothelio | | When you are able to see the edge of a mass that has spreed into surrounding tissue (_____ invasion) |
| tumor | | placental origin |
| sarc | | finger like |
| meningioma | | forms in gland, forms lobule/ glandular tissue |
| schwanno | | Always implies cancer |
| Benign | | blood vessel |
| Hepatocellularcarcinoma | | Well demarcated, noninvasive, slow growing |
| teratoma | | schwann cells |
| oma | | Made up of all different germ cells in 1 tumor, eptopic, cells don't belong in these tissues |
| lumphoma | | Malignant neoplasia of connective tissue |
| Grade | | meninge origin, benign neoplasm |
| bone | | lymph vessel |
| papillo | | melanocyte is cell of origin, never benign, always malignant (mis-named) |
| lymphangio | | Malignant tumors look like this vegetable |
| anaplastic | | neoplasm has ability to harden tissue around it |
| cystadeno | | can effect the pleua, paricardium, or peritineum |
| Ductal | | froms in duct |
| muscle | | looks like glandular tissue, most common in colon |
| Lung | | smooth muscle malignant tumor |
| Liposarcoma | | greatest killer in males worldwide (2words, no space) |
| Enchondroma | | Chromaffin cells of the adrenal gland involved, lots of colors of cells |
| cyst | | solid mass, not hollow in the middle |