☰
✕

Human Health and Disease
Question
Wired Faculty App

The carcinoma, a type of cancer, originates from

  • blood

  • connective tissue

  • epithelial tissue

  • lymph gland

Answer

C.

epithelial tissue

Carcinoma refers to the malignant tumours or cancer of epidermal/epithelial tissues. e.g., breast cancer, skin cancer, lung cancer, glands cancer etc.

Sarcoma is the cancer of mesodermal or connective tissues such as cancer of bone (osteoma), cancer of adipose tissue (lipoma) cancer of lymph vessels (lymphoma). Blood cancer is also known as leukaemia.

Sponsor Area

Some More Questions From Human Health and Disease Chapter

Name the most infectious human common ailment and write its causative agent.

Out of four species of malaria which is most serious ?

Name the vector of malaria.

Write the causative agent of (i) amoebiasis and (ii) ascariasis.

Name the disease caused by Wuchereria bancrofti.

List three fungal genera which cause ringworm.

List two symptoms of ring worm.

Name the  two wide spread diseases caused by Aedes mosquitoes.

Name the primary lymphoid organs.

What is the protein produced by B-cells called?