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Cancerous
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Pertaining to cancer
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Carcinogen
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Substance that causes cancer
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Carcinogenic
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Producing cancer
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Cyanosis
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Abnormal condition of blue (bluish discoloration of the skin caused by inadequate supply of oxygen in the blood)
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Diagnosis (Dx)
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State of complete knowledge Identifying a disease)
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Etiology
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Study of causes (of diseases)
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Iatrology
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Study of medicine
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Metastasis (mets)(pl. metastases)
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Beyond control (transfer of disease from one organ to another, as in the transfer of malignant tumors)
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Neopathy
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New disease
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Oncogenic
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Causing tumors
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Oncologist
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A physician who studies and treats tumors
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Oncology
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Study of tumors (a branch of medicine concerned with the study of malignant tumors)
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Pathogenic
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Producing disease
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Pathologist
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A physician who studies diseases (examines biopsies and performs autopsies to determine the cause of disease or death)
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Pathology
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Study of disease ( a branch of medicine dealing with the study of the causes of diseases and death)
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