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What is the medical term meaning fatty tumor?
The technical name for a fatty tumor is a lipoma. This is a benign tumor of fatty tissues. The most common type is a superficial subcutaneous lipoma which is just below the surface of the skin and usually are on the thighs or forearms, but can be found anywhere fat is located.Adipose tissue, adipose tumour or lipoma.lipoma
What is the medical name for chest bone?
Sternum
What is the medical name for the outer leg bone?
fibula
Other names for clavicle?
That is the scientific/ medical name for the collar bone
What is the name of the collier bone?
The medical name is the clavicle. Also, its spelled collarbone.
What is the medical term meaning tumor resembling many different tissues?
A poorly-differentiated tumor resembles many different tissues. In contract, it's easy to name the tissue type of a well-differentiated tumor.
What is the medical name for abnormal loss of bone tissue?
Osteopenia is the medical term meaning lower-than-normal bone mass. If bone loss is significant, osteoporosis may result.
What is a swanoma tumor and how bad are they?
A Swanoma Tumor is a bundle of nerve cells The correct spelling is schwannoma. A schwannoma (sh-won-oma) is a tumor of the tissue covering nerves called the nerve sheath. These tumours develop from a type of cell called a Schwann cell, which gives them their name. Schwannomas are often not cancerous (benign). The commonest type of benign schwannoma is the acoustic neuroma. This can cause deafness because it grows on a nerve called the 8th cranial nerve, which controls hearing.
What re the medical name of finger bone?
The bones in the finger are called phalanges
Why is malignant melanoma cancer so dangerous?
By definition CANCER is MALIGNANT - benign is NOT cancer, it is just a growth (tumor).There are three main characteristics typical of malignant (cancer) and benign (non-cancerous), for example:Malignant cancers are usually fast growing (as opposed to benign cancers which are usually slow growing);Malignant cancers invade the tissue, in fact the name cancer means "crab", because it invades the surrounding tissue and looks like a crab (benign cancers are usually encapsulated, therefore, do not invade the surrounding tissue);Malignant cancer cells are undifferentiated, which means that they regress back to simple cells and loose their main functions (benign cancer cells are usually well differentiated).There are exceptions. For example, kidney cancer may look benign because it's usually encapsulated, but it is actually malignant.
What is the medicaL term meaning pertaining to the thigh?
The femur is the thigh bone.FemurfemurThe thigh bone is known as the femur. It extends from the pelvis to the knee and it is the longest and strongest bone in the body.
What is the 2 medical name of the bone?
it is the main skeleton that attouch to brain so the bone have mucsels to protect a brain also that have mistaken or it isnot proven
