Vocabulary for the Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks

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1	Vocabulary Word	Vocabulary Word	Vocabulary Word	Vocabulary Word	Explain in your words or say it in your own language)	Questions you may have about this word, concept, or phrase	Your name

2	Tumor	1	Her light brown skin is smooth, her eyes still young and playful, oblivious to the tumor growing insider her...	A tumor is an abnormal growth of body tissue. Tumors can be cancerous (malignant) or noncancerous (benign). http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmedhealth/PMH0002287/	Henrietta had cancerous cells growing from a tumor on her cervix.	Did the tumor bigger and bigger with all the cancerous cells? Or did the cells break off and start to spread?	Dr. Jerskey
3	cell	1
4	menopause	27	He'd pioneered the use of estrogen for treating symotoms of menopause and made important early discoveries about endometriosis.	the period of permanent cessation of menstruation, usually occurring between the ages of 45 and 55.	Uncle Dick is the first person who use estrogen to cure menopause and he finds informations about endometriosis.		Hua He(stephanie)
5	radium	32	Radium causes mutations that can turn into cancer, and at high doses it can burn the skin off a person's body.	Chemistry . a highly radioactive metallic element whose decay yields radon gas and alpha rays	radium is a high tempreture ray and kill cancer cell.	if people use radium to cure their diease,did it remain some sequelaes in the future?	Hua He(stephanie)
6	invasive carcinoma	28	Cervical carcinomas are divided into two types: invasive carcinomas, which have penetrated the surface of the cervix, and noninvasive carcinomas, which haven't.	Invasive carcinoma, commonly called cancer, is the final step in this sequence. It is a disease that, if left untreated, will invade and spread to surrounding tissues and structures of the host (hence its name), and may eventually be lethal.	there are two types of cancer: invasive carcinoma is hurmful,it survive on the surface; noninvasive carsinoma doesn't survive on the surface and it is not aggressive.	which one has the better rate of surgery between invasive carcinoma and noninvasive carcinoma?	hua He(stephanie)
7	cervix	1	She's simply called HeLa, the code name given to the world's first immortal human cells-her cells, cut from her cervix just months before died.	the narrow passage at the opening of a woman's WOMB	Cervix is one important organs in female reproductive system	What is the function of cervix?	Xiu Zou
8	diagnosis	17	Jones cut a small sample and sent it to the pathology lab down the hall for a diagnosis.	the act of discovering or identifying the exact cause of an illness or a problem	to find out whether a person has a problem on his/her health	What is the procedure for cancer diagnosis?	Xiu Zou
9	biopsy	27	Then, a few days later, Jones got her biopsy results from the pathology lab: "Epidermoid carcinoma of the cervix, Stage I."	a biopsy is a medical test involving the removal of cells or issues for examination	Jones cut a piece of the tumor from Henrietta's cervix to do a biopsy.	Can all cancers be checked out by a biopsy?	Xiu Zou
10	poisoned	16	one died of car accident, one from rheumatic heat, one was poisoned.	any substance that causes injury or illness or death of a living organism	anything is toxic and harm for people.	is this word include everything ot just for food?	pengfei xue
11	mutation	32	radium causes mutations that can turn into cancer, and at high doses it can burn the skin off a person's body.	a process of change in the cells of a living thing producing a new quality in the materal or parts of body, and sometimes causing illness.	a progress of illness turn into other new. usually make the body sicker.	is this a way to cause cancer?	congcong he
12	cervical	27	most cervical cancer are carcinomas, which grow from the epithelial cells that cover the cervix and protect its surface.	med of a neck or cervix	a part of neck of womb	how to prevent cervical cancer?	cong cong he
13	hysterectomy	29	doctors could detect precancerous cells and perform a hysterectomy, and cervical cancer would be almost entirely preventable.	the medical operation for removing the womb	a operation for take away the womb	what stage of cervical cancer should have hysterectomy?	congcong he
14	embryos	3	Defler paced the front of the classroom telling us how mitosis the process of cell division-makes it possible for embryos to grow into babies.	an animal or human that has not been born and has just begun to develop	a cell or a pile cell that might become a human or animal.	what is the process that embryos become a baby?	yuan
15	midwife	18	A midwife named Fannie delivered her into a small shack on a dead-end road overlooking a train depot.	a specially trained nurse, usually a woman, whose job is to help woman when they are having a baby	a woman who help pregrents to deliver a baby		yuan
16	suppress	4	her cells were part of research into the genes that cause cancer and those that suppress it	to control a feeling, so that you do not show it	hold the feeling that you do not want people know	what is the theraurus of this word?	yuan
17	Segregated	15	Even Hopkins, wich did treat black patients,segregated them in colored wards.	restricted to one group,especially,exclusively on the basis of racial or ethnic membership	inequality between groups		Roger Munera
18	Squat	18	Henrietta's father, Jhonny pleasant, was a squat man.	(of a person, animal, the body, etc.) short and thickset	medium height, chubby.		Roger Munera
19	Neurosyphilis		People would not use word like neurosyphilies to describe Elsie's condition.	Nervous system manifestations of syphilis including tabes dorsalis and general paresis.	when the infection(syphilis) attacks the nervous system.		Roger Munera
20	Haywire	3	Mitosis goes haywire, which is how it spreads.	Badly disorganized	out of control		Yajaira
21	epileptic	16	Only anxiety is oldest daughter who is epileptic and can't talk	a person affected by epilepsy	It is a kind of disease that will make people can't speak	Is there any cure for epileptic at that time?	Ho Chun Li
22	gynecologist	15	Henrietta underdressed, wrapped herself in a starched white hospital gown, and lay down on a wooden exam table, waiting for Howard Jones, the gynecologist on duty	a physician specializing in gynecology	They are a kind of doctor who just treat women	The gynecologist had enoungh knowledge of gynecology at that time?	Ho Chun Li
23	Bladder	31	They stuck tubes in her bladder and nose.	It is the organ that collects urine excreted by the kidneys before disposal by urination.	Where urine is stored until we pee.		yajaira
24	penicillin	14	The kind doctor treated with shots of penicillin and heavy metals.	any of several antibiotics of low toxicity, produced naturally by molds of the genus Penicillium and also semisynthetically, having a bactericidal action on many susceptible Gram-positive or Gram-negative cocci and bacilli, some also being effective against certain spirochetes.	It is a kind of medicine	what is the use of penicillin?	Ho Chun Li
25	cytoplasm	3	the cytoplasm buzzes like a new york city street.	the protoplasm of a cell excluding the nucleus	part of cell	how is it look like?	wu zou
26	knot	14	it's a knot	a tight cluster of people or things	people made a knot in the rope		wu zou
27	siblings	16	Patient was one of ten siblings.	Are people who share at least one parent.	brothers and sisters		Yajaira
28	flourished	24	but as large farms flourished, the small ones struggle.	a showy gesture	motion		wu zou
29	squat	18	Henrieta's fatgher, Johnny Pleasant, was a squat man.	short and thick	fat and short		He Gao(Tony)
30	auctioneer	21	talking in a fast gibberish to sound like the auctioneer	an agent who conducts an auction	seller who sell something in public	Is it an offical word?	He Gao(Tony)
31	Laboratoty	2	Bought,sold,packaged,and shipped by the trillions to laboratoty around the world.	Place for scientific work or research	The place that do some test	Is LAB short for Laboratoty?	Liting Lin
32	Choreograph	3	He said, like a perfectly choreographed dance.	The devising of dances	Design a dance	How beautiful it would be?	Liting Lin
33	Existence	7	and their lifelong struggle to make peace with the existence of those cells	be;occur;live	Have	I don't know how to use this word?	Liting Lin
34	scurry	13	scurried into the hospital	hurry, quickly	move instantly	scurry him to do the job well.	shourave
35	exorcism	7	i would eventually find myself on the receiving end of something that looked a lot like an exorcism	attempt to expel (one or more evil spirits) from (a person or place believed	to take out evils spirits from a person	the priest exorcised a person who was possessed.	shourave
36	Enzyme	3	it just take one enzyme misfiring, just one wrong protein activation, and you could have cancer	any of numerous protein produce by a living organisms.	that it just takes one quimical imbalance between one cell to another to star the spreding of cancer cells	why the cell can't control the enzyme that the other cell is releasing to prevent the spreading of this desease	Anny. Rosario
37	omnipresent	5	As i graduated from high school and worked my gay through college toward a biology degree,HeLa cell were omnipresent	the fact of being present everywhere	HeLa's cell where present in almost in every class that she took during her college years	why she decided to use this word it sound comlpicated	Anny.Rosario
38	follow-up	16	It was no surprise that she hadn't come back all those times for follow-up	the act of repeating or supplementing previous action, as by a letter or visit	she decided to stay at home and she lost her appointment with the doctor to continue her treatment	how important is a follow-up	Anny. Rosario
39	gynecology	Pag. 27-28	He'd also written one of the most famous clinical gynecology textbooks'	The branch of medicine dealing with health care for women, especially the diagnosis and treatment of disorders affecting the female reproductive organs.	The process that woman should deal to take care of their female reproduce system.	how is the gynecology treatment?	Leslie
40	Cervical	pg	"Cervical carcinomas are divided into two types: invasive carinomas..."	Of or relating to a neck or a cervix.	The neck of the vagina	what is the cervical for?	Leslie
41	Biopsy	Pag. 16	"... but she'd never heard the words cervix or biopsy".	The removal and examination of tissue, cells, or fluids from the living body.	The action of remove something from the body.	How many types are of biopsy?	Leslie
42	Hysterectomy	pag. 29	But with the Pap smear, doctors could detect precancerous cells and perform a hysterectomy, and cervical cancer would be almost entirely preventable.	This is the surgical removal of the uterus	A medical procedure involving an incision with instruments; performed to remove women womb.	Do you really think performing a hysterectomy could decrease death rate when "few doctors knew how to interpret the result accurately, because they didn't know what the various stages of cervical looked like under a microscope"?	Gbenga
43	Vulture	pag.30	"The world's most famous vulture, feeding on human specimens almost constantly".	a large bird with almost no feathers on its head or neck, that eats the flesh of dead animals •		Where else we can meet this kind of bird?	Larisa
44	Tremendous	pag.28	This was a tremendous advance, because those precancerous cells weren't detectable otherwise: they caused no physical symptoms and weren't palpable or visible to the naked eye.	great in amount, size, or degree; extremely large	a tremendous book	Is something in your life was tremendous?	Larisa
45	Ancestors	pag.18	Their ancestors had worked as slaves	any member of your family from long ago, for example, the grandparents of your grandparents		Do our children will want to know all about their ancestors?	Larisa
46	gonorrhea	48	she had Acute Gonorrhea superimposed on radiation reaction.	this is a sexually transmitted disease caused by the bacteium Neisseria	It is a disease that spread from one person to another person by close physical contact during viginal, anal or oral sex.	why gonorrhea is called "the clap"?	gbenga
47	metastasize	57	"[...] Gey would warn recipients that the cells were about to metastasize to their cities, [...]"	Spread to other sites in the body by metastasis.	in other words it is contagious	how can it be transmited or spread...	William Perez
48	sterilization	59	he dreamed of never-ending life for those he deemed worthy, and death or forced "sterilization" for wveryone else.	the act of making an organism barren or infertile.			William Perez
49	Scrape	35	"... o hours of delicate cutting, scraping, tweezing, and pipetting."	To remove from a surface by usually repeated strokes of an edged instrument	Mary had the ability to scraping cells.	Do scrape technique need special instruments or is it through radium?	Leslie Quiroa
50	X-ray	46	"She had to start X-ray therapy, which meant visiting Hopkins every weekday for a month."	A form of electromagnetic radiation, similar to light but of shorter wavelength and capable of penetrating solids and of ionizing gases.	It was the process that Henrietta should went throughout to stop her cancer cell inside her body.	Do x-ray therapy is successful for all types of cancer or just smallest?	Leslie Quiroa
51	Transfusion	65	"... Henrietta needed transfusions later."	The transfer of whole blood or blood products from one individual to another.	Henrietta need the transfusion in order to know through analyzed her blood what was happening inside her body.	Transfusion are always safe?	Leslie Quiroa
52	Biopsy	33	"Henrietta Lacks... biopsy of cervical tissue...	the removal for diagnostic study of a piece of tissue from a living body.	it is the removal of a piece of tissue of a part of our body for a diagnosis	in wich cases biopsy is used?	Andrea
53	sickle-cell anemia	50	i'd also read about the lack of funding for research into sickle-cell anemia	a chronic anemia that occurs in individuals specially in african or mediterranean descent and is characterized by the destruccion of red blood cells and by episodic blocked of blood vessels.	it is a disease that cause specially to black people	why does sickle-cell anemia only affect to black people?	Andrea
54	epilepsy	51	did you know Henrietta had an epileptic daughter?	a disorder of the nervous system	severe convulsions with loss of conciousness	what could cause epylepsy?	Andrea
55	shrinking	46	her cervix was a bit red and inflamed from the first treatment, but the tumor was shrinking.	Make or become smoller	getting little		Yajaira
56	symposium	49	The symposium had been organized in Henrietta's honor by Roland Pottillo a professor of gynecology at Morehouse who'd been one of George Gey's only African-American students.	A conference or meeting to discuss a particular subject.		Why Roland Pottillo did not invite Henrietta's family?	Yajaira
57	widespread	64	Many black patients were just glad to be getting treatment, since discrimination in hospitals was widespread.	widely distributed or disseminated.	all over		Yajaira
58	gristle	35	she was tired of cell culture, tired of meticulously cutting away dead tissue like gristle from a steak, tired of having cells die after hours of work.	Tough elastic tissue; mostly converted to bone in adults			gbenga
59	cubicle			This is a small area set off walls for special use	a bedroom, especially one of a number of small ones in a divided dormitory		gbenga
60	syringe	36	With his free hand, he 'd squirt the bird's chest with alcohol, and plunge a syringe needle into the chicken's heart to draw blood.	a small device consisting of a glass, metal, or hard rubber tube, narrowed at its outlet, and fitted with either a piston or a rubber bulb for drawing in a quantity of fluid or for ejecting fluid in a stream, for cleaning wounds, injecting fluids into the body, etc.	a volumetric apparatus for people inject a liquid into body.	what intention that doctor GEY do this experimentation?	hua he(stephanie)
61	mythological	40	But Henrietta's cells weren' t merely surviving, they were growing with mythological intensity.	imaginary; fictitious.	something that is not really happened. people image that is real.	how do cells spread quickly ?	hua he(stephanie)
62	inevitable	59	Carrel's new miracle points way to avert old age,scientists grow immortal chicken heart, death perhaps not inevitable.	sure to occur, happen, or come; unalterable	something that is predeterminate.it is fateful .	how chicken heart's cell help people to cure disease?	hua he(stephanie)
63	contamination	36	Finding the perfect medium was an ongoing experiment, but the biggest problem cell culture was contamination.	the act or process of contaminating or the state of being contaminated	the act of being dirty; Synonym is pollution	Is contamination a big deal to cause cells to die?	Xiu Zou
64	infertile	47	Untile that moment, Henrietta didn't know taht the treatments had left her infertile.	not capable of producing offspring	not able have babies	What percentage are women infertile in the world?	Xiu Zou
65	radiation therapy	56	On April 10, 1951, three weeks after Henrietta started radiation therapy, George Gey appeared on WAAM television in Baltimore for a special show devoted to his work.	the treatment of cancer and other diseases using radiation	a way that uses powerful and dangerous rays to kill the bad cells	How was the radiation therapy found?	Xiu Zou
66	Groan	66	They wrote 'She groans"	to utter a deep moan indicative of pain, grief, or annoyance.	complainig with pain sounds.		Roger Munera
67	shrink	45-46	But the tumor was shrinking.	to contract or curl up the body or part of it.	become smaller.		Roger Munera
68	benevolent deception	63	This was a time when"benevolent deception" was a common practice	when a person is denied the opportunity to ask	They accepted everything without asked		Roger Munera
69	therapy	46	regardless, she had to start X-ray therapy, which meant visiting Hopking every weekday for a month.	the treatment of a illness or injury over a fairly long period ot time	the process make patients become better		yuanzheng
70	fertility	47	warning patients about fertility loss before cancer treament was standard practice at Hopking, and something Howard Jones says he and TeLinde did with every patient.	the property of producing abundantly and sustaining vigorous and luxuriant growth	the ability of giving a birth to a baby		yuanzheng
71	weary	52	she said, weary but waarm.	exhaust or get tired through overuse or great strain or stress	tired		yuanzheng
72	hysterectomy	47	The psychic effect of hysterectomy	excision of the uterus.	A kind of treatment		ho chun li
73	anesthetic	47	It is far better for her to make her own adjustment before the operation than to awaken from the anesthetic and find it a fait accompli.	a substance that produces anesthesia, as halothane, procaine, or ether.	A thing will make you cannot move.		ho chun li
74	surgical	46	She'd change into a surgical gown.	used in surgery.	It is a adjective form of surgery		ho chun li
75	incubator	40	when Mary finally finished cutting the samples of Henrietta's cervix and dropping them in dozens of roller tubes, she walked into the incubator room	an apparatus in which media inoculated with microorganisms are cultured at a constant temperature	it is a room where different types of organism tissue is preserved	how long can a specimen survive out side of the incubator?	Anny
76	mischievous	39	Margaret was cautious and stable, the backbone of the lab. George was a enormous, mischievous, grown-up kid	maliciously or playfully annoying	he did not take life to siriouly	why he was acting like that a scientist should be more responsible with his work?	Anny
77	agony	51	"she came near a stroke recently because of the agony she's gone through regarding inquiries into her mother's death cells."	extreme and generally prolonged pain, intense physical or mental suffering	she felt very bad because of what the doctor did with her mother's cells	did she got over of what they did with her mother's cells?	Anny
78	meticylously	37
79	gristle	35	but she was tired of cell culture, tired of meticulously cutting away dead tissue like gristle from staek, tired of having cells die after hours of work.	the part of meat that is not soft enough to eat	when you eat meat, it under cook or over cook that taste bad.	is this how she feels about cutting away dead tissue?	congcong he
80	crabgrass	41	" Spreading like crabgrass!" Margaret said.	a kind of rough grass	decribe the cells grow fast	is she means the cells go into a good condition?	congcong he
81	messiah	59	Carrel was a scientific messiah	someone who people believe will solve all their problems	when someone help you when you are in trouble. we call them messiah.	how Carrel helps people?	congcong he
82	Morphine	85	Soon after Emmett and his friends visited, at fourt o'clock on the afternoon of september 24, 1951, a doctor injected Henrietta with a heavy dose of morphine and wrote in her chart, " Discontinue all medications and treatments execept analgesic."	is a potent opiate analgesic medication and is considered to be the prototypical opioid.	is a stronger analgesic for pain	Why you cannot use to much morphine?	Yajaira
83	obituary	89	There was no obituary for Henrietta Lacks, but word of her death reached the Gey lab quickly.	a notice of the death of a person, often with a biographical sketch, as in a newspaper.	when someone died, her family did not put obituary information in a newspaper.	why there was no obituary for Henrietta Lacks?	Hua He(stephanie)
84	rigid	85	Suddenly her body went rigid as a board.	In physics, a rigid body is an idealization of a solid body of finite size in which deformation is neglected.	is when the body becomes hard.	Why the body gets hard so fast?	Yajaira
85	moan	84	"What you doin here?" Henrietta moaned.	The human voice consists of sound made by a human being using the vocal folds, a body part, for talking, singing, laughing, crying, screaming, etc.	Is when a person whispers.		Yajaira
86	autopsy	89	A few hours later,when Day went to Hopkins with a cousin to see Henrietta's body and sign some papers, the doctors asked again about the autopsy.	inspection and dissection of a body after death, as for determination of the cause of death; postmortem examination.	decompose the dead body or postmortem examination.	Did Day agree with autopsy?	hua He(stephanie)
87	transfusion	83	She got so much blood that one doctor wrote a note in her recoed stopping all transfusions until her deficit with the blood bank was made up.	Medicine/Medical . the direct transferring of blood, plasma, or the like into a blood vessel.	transfer blood into the body		hua He(stephanie)
88	asbestos	83	they were working men with steel and asbestos in their lungs.	a fabric woven from asbestos fibers, formerly used for theater curtains, firefighters' gloves, etc.	used to make a fabric woven.	for what else could be use these asbestos?	Andrea
89	formaldehyde	90	Henrietta's tumor-covered cervix were into containers filled with formaldehyde to save them for future use.	a colorless, toxic, potencially carcinogenic, water-soluble gas, having a suffocating odor,	it is using for a desinfectant and preservative.	in what else can i use formol?	Andrea
90	uremia	90	the official cause of Henrietta'sdeath was terminal uremia.	a condition resulting from the retention in the blood of constituents normally excreted in the urine.	blood poisoning of toxins normally flushed out of the body in urine.	what could cause uremia?	Andrea
91	polio	79	His real name was Hector Henry-people started calling him Cootie when he got polio decades earlier; he was never sure why.	an infectious disease that affects the central nervous system and can cause temporary or permanent paralysis	loss of control or feeling in part or most of the body	What reasons can cause polio?	Xiu Zou
92	hepatitis	80	A small boom box leaned against one wall blaring a gospel call-in show, with a preacher screaming somthing about the Lord curing s caller of hepatitis.	hepatitis A hepatitis B and hepatitis C inflammation of the liver, characterized by fever, jaundice, and weakness	a serious disase of the liver	Why does hepatitis have three main forms?	Xiu Zou
93	dose	85	Soon after Emmett and his friends visited, at fourt o'clock on the afternoon of september 24, 1951, a doctor injected Henrietta with a heavy dose of morphine and wrote in her chart, " Discontinue all medications and treatments execept analgesic."	med a specific quantity of a therapeutic drug or agent taken at any one time or at specified intervals	an amout of a medicine that is taken once or regularly over a period of time	How much is a heavy dose of morphine in the sentence?	Xiu Zou
94	Stirrups	65	A doctor put Henrietta's feet in stirrups to take a few more cells	any of various similar supports or clamps used for special purposes	a piece of something that can support or hold a body part.		Roger M
95	weathered	79	the road turned to gravel past a tobbaco field just a path of red to the top of a weathered tree truck	(of wood) artificially treated to seem discolored or stained by the action of air, rain	affected by exposure to the weather		Roger M
96	swollen	84	their eyes swollen from too much crying	a past participle of swell,enlarged by or as by swelling; puffed up; tumid.	sore		Roger M
97	morgue	90	she wanted to run out of the morgue and back to the lab.	a sad lifeless place	people place the body in morgue for a short time.	is a only way to keep body fresh?	congcong he
98	toxin	83	she got one blood transfusion after another because her kidneys could no longer filter the toxins from her blood.	one produced by bacteria in a living or dead plant or animal body and usu. causeing a particular dusease.	poisonous substance	does toxin will cause death?	congcong he
99	kin	79	everybody in Lacks Town kin to Henrietta.	the members of one's family	one's relative	why do people who kin to Henrietta do not want to talk about Henrietta?	congcong he
100	plaque	73	What about the plaque you got for the museum?	an inscribed commemorative tablet, usually of metal placed on a building, monument, or the like.	it is something in the museum		ho chun li