biospy

[keenkeen]

I posted a question and no one has replied to it?  The biospy was of the thyroid, please someone please tell me what some of these terms mean.

[stella5349]

Macrophage: A type of white blood that ingests (takes in) foreign material. Macrophages are key players in the immune response to foreign invaders such as infectious microorganisms. Blood monocytes migrate into the tissues of the body and there differentiate (evolve) into macrophages.
Macrophages help destroy bacteria, protozoa, and tumor cells. They also release substances that stimulate other cells of the immune system. And they are involved in antigen presentation. To do this, they carry the antigen on their surface and present it to a T cells.

Hyperplasia is an excess of normal tissue

Colloid material/nodule  - a gelatinous or mucinous substance found normally in the thyroid and also in diseased tissue

Follicular : a small lymph node  Epithelium : a membranous cellular tissue that covers a free surface or lines a tube or cavity of an animal body and serves especially to enclose and protect the other parts of the body, to produce secretions and excretions, and to function in assimilation

Now _ I cheated for you on this and you can too. Just online search definitions of med term - stuff will pop up. Read through your report and put these definations with it.

Also. I am a beginner on these reports - I am sure another will post and easier term too. I just didn't want you in limbo - you seemed anxious as I did last week on some test.

Good Luck

[keenkeen]

The terms are as follows:Foamy macrophages, colloid material, hyperplastic colloid nodule and follicular epithelium, what does all this mean?

[stella5349]

What terms?