1. etiology: study of causes (of disease)
2. histology: study of tissues
3. hyperplasia: excessive development
(of cells)
4. hypoplasia: incomplete development
(of an organ or tissues)
5. iatrogenic: produced by a physician
(adverse condition)
6. iatrology: study of medicine
7. karyocyte: cell with a nucleus
8. karyoplasm: substance of a nucleus
9. leukocyte: white (blood) cell (WBC)
10. leukocytosis: increase in the
number of white (blood) cells
11. lipoid: resembling fat
12. metastasis: beyond control (transfer
of disease from one organ to another as in the transfer of malignant tumors)
13. myopathy disease of the muscle
14. neopathy: new disease
15. neuroid: resembling a nerve
16. oncogenic: causing tumors
17. oncologist: physician who specializes
in oncology
18. oncology: study of tumors
19. pathogenic: producing disease
20. prognosis (Px) state of before
knowledge (forecast of probable outcome of disease)